Toshio Masuda (born October 5, 1927 in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan) is a Japanese film director. He developed a reputation as a consistent box office hit-maker. Over the course of five decades, 16 of his films made the yearly top ten lists at the Japanese box office—a second place record in the industry. Between 1958 and 1968 he directed 52 films for the Nikkatsu Company. He was their top director of action films and worked with the company's top stars, including Yujiro Ishihara with whom he made 25 films. After the breakdown of the studio system, he moved on to a succession of big-budget movies including the American-Japanese co-production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the science fiction epic Catastrophe 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974). He worked on such anime productions as the Space Battleship Yamato series. His corporate drama Company Funeral (1989) earned him a Japanese Academy Award nomination and wins at the Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards. In Japan, his films are well remembered by fans and called genre landmarks by critics. He remains little known abroad save for rare exceptions of his post-Nikkatsu work such as Tora! Tora! Tora!. However, a number of his films were screened in a 2005 Nikkatsu Action Cinema retrospective in Italy and a few have since made their way to the United States. At the age of 81, he is currently prepping to helm Uchū Senkan Yamato: Fukkatsu hen (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Toshio Masuda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Toshio Masuda(1927년생, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan) 는 감독으로, 대표작으로 아들을 동반한 검객, 도라! 도라! 도라!, 二百三高地 愛は死にますか가 있으며, 그 외에도 미래전쟁 198X, 父子鷹, 宮本武蔵, 우주전함 야마토, 203 고지, 大日本帝国, ノストラダムスの大予言, 야마토여 영원히, 必殺！5 黄金の血, 오딘 - 광자 범선 스트레이트, 零戦燃ゆ, 日本海大海戦 海ゆかば 등 다양한 작품을 연출했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 1997년 Kaze Hikaru Ken Hachigakuto Himon (風光る剣 八嶽党秘聞) 연출을 맡았다. 1994년 父子鷹 연출을 맡았다. 1993년 独眼竜の野望　伊達政宗 연출을 맡았다.