Masahiro Makino
Masahiro Makino (マキノ 雅弘, Makino Masahiro, February 29, 1908 - October 29, 1993) was a Japanese film director. He directed more than 260 films, primarily in the chanbara and yakuza genres. His real name was Masatada (正唯), but he took the stage name Masahiro, the kanji for which he changed multiple times (including 雅広, 正博, and 雅裕).
Masahiro Makino was born in Kyoto, the eldest son of the film director and producer Shōzō Makino, who is often called the father of Japanese cinema. As a youth he acted in over 100 films before debuting as a film director in 1926 at age 18.
His critically acclaimed nihilistic jidaigeki such as Roningai (1928) made him one of the top Japanese film directors, but his way of shooting films quickly also earned him detractors. For instance, the total time it took to shoot the 1936 film Edo no Ka Oshō was only 28 hours.The critic Sadao Yamane, however, has argued that this fast filming practice also contributed to Makino's speedy, rhythmic film style. Rhythm and tempo are important to his films, and so in his jidaigeki, fight scenes like in Kettō Takadanobaba (1937) could seem like dances, or entire sequences, like in Awa no Odoriko (1941), could be filled with dance. He made musicals like Singing Lovebirds (1939) and even his wartime propaganda films like Hanako-san and Ahen senso (both 1943) could have Busby Berkeley-like musical numbers.
After the war, he helmed such popular jidaigeki series as Jirōchō Sangokushi and such ninkyō eiga series as Nihon Kyōkaku-den. He directed his last film in 1972, the retirement film for Junko Fuji, completing a filmography that totaled over 260 films and included films of many genres.
Crew
Histories of the Chivalrous
Director
53 Stages of Action
Director, Screenplay
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Screenplay, Director
Rônin-gai - Dai-san-wa: Tsukareta hitobito
Director
Singing Lovebirds
Director
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Director
Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best
Writer, Director
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
Director
Samurai Town Story Part II
Director
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
Director
Yakuza Official
Director, Screenplay
honchō kai neko Tsutō
Director
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Director
Jirocho Rises in Fame
Director
Lady Sen and Hideyori
Director
Peonies And Dragons
Director
Goblin in Stirrups
Director
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
Director, Writer
One Man's Chivalry
Director
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
Director
The Traveling Ruffian
Screenplay, Director
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Director, Screenplay
Samurai Town Story Part I
Director
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
Director
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
Director
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
Writer, Director
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Director
Jirocho, the Hunted
Director
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Director
Her Captive Gamblers
Director
Jirocho's New Year
Director
Jirocho in Disgrace
Director
Last of the Wild Ones
Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Director, Screenplay
Yakuza of Ina
Director, Screenplay
A Thousand Standards of Stone
Director
The Path of the King
Director
Bull's Eye of Love
Screenplay, Director
Blood Festival of Akagi
Director
Such is Life
Screenplay, Director
Pure-Hearted Unit
Director
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Director
Sinking the Unsinkable
Director
A Revengeful Raid
Director, Screenplay
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Director, Screenplay
An Actor's Revenge
Director
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Director
Victory Song
Director, Producer
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
Director
Golden Devil Part 2
Director
Whirlwind Magistrate
Director
Street of Ronin
Director, Screenplay
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
Director
Zoku Shimizu Minato
Director
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Director
The Man Who Waited
Director
Echo in the Mountains
Director
The Chivalrous Life
Director
Sennichimae fukin
Director
Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
Director
Daikichi Konomura
Director, Screenplay
Kunisada Chūji: Shinshū komoriuta
Director, Screenplay
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
Director
Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
Director
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Director
Iki na fûraibô
Director, Producer
Yakuza bayashi
Director, Screenplay
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Director
Woman Boss
Director, Screenplay
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Director
Fighting Disposition
Director
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Director
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Director
The Killing of Otsuya
Director
The Sword
Executive Producer
Dancers of Awa
Director, Writer
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Director
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
Director
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Director
The Domain: White Blade
Director
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Director
The Domain: Severed Relations
Director
Works of the Fish Man
Director
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Director
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Director, Writer
Temple of Revenge
Director
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Director
The Official And The Princess of Thieves
Director
Fearless Opposition
Director
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
Director
The Demon at the Modoribashi Bridge
Director
