Production

Hisao Masuda

Born

1946-01-01 (80)

Place of birth

Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Production

Credits

14 titles

Masuda Hisao is a Japanese film producer, also known under the pseudonym Yoichi Kitahara. In 1976, he founded "Premier International" and is now the representative director.

Known for

The Adventures of Tyrano Boy poster
6.6

Toron, a young tyrannosaurus boy, is carried off downstream and loses his memory. While making his way back home, he discovers new friends and finds out that working together is the only way forward in life.

The Adventures of Tyrano Boy

2015

g@me. poster
6.8

A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.

g@me.

2003

Tomorrow's Joe The Movie poster
8.4

An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not familiar with the first TV series or the manga.

Tomorrow's Joe The Movie

1980

You'll Fall For Me poster
7.0

Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they're total opposites, by a twist of fate, they become best friends. However, it turns out they both want to spend Christmas Eve with the same guy. Will they choose friendship? Or love?

You'll Fall For Me

1989

Star poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Star

1986

Kinkyu Yobidashi: Emergency Call poster
7.0

The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield. Hideyuki Harada, an intern on duty at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, worked without having time to breathe. It was six years ago that Harada decided to become a doctor. Harada, who worked at the Manila branch of a Japanese trading company, was supposed to marry a junior at the university, Masami, when she returned to Japan, but she told her that she was married to Harada's best friend, Isomura, a sergeant at a large hospital.

Kinkyu Yobidashi: Emergency Call

1995

Behind the camera

The Adventures of Tyrano Boy poster
6.6

Toron, a young tyrannosaurus boy, is carried off downstream and loses his memory. While making his way back home, he discovers new friends and finds out that working together is the only way forward in life.

The Adventures of Tyrano Boy

2015

g@me. poster
6.8

A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.

g@me.

2003

Tomorrow's Joe The Movie poster
8.4

An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not familiar with the first TV series or the manga.

Tomorrow's Joe The Movie

1980

You'll Fall For Me poster
7.0

Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they're total opposites, by a twist of fate, they become best friends. However, it turns out they both want to spend Christmas Eve with the same guy. Will they choose friendship? Or love?

You'll Fall For Me

1989

Star poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Star

1986

Kinkyu Yobidashi: Emergency Call poster
7.0

The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield. Hideyuki Harada, an intern on duty at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, worked without having time to breathe. It was six years ago that Harada decided to become a doctor. Harada, who worked at the Manila branch of a Japanese trading company, was supposed to marry a junior at the university, Masami, when she returned to Japan, but she told her that she was married to Harada's best friend, Isomura, a sergeant at a large hospital.

Kinkyu Yobidashi: Emergency Call

1995

Sensen fukoku poster
8.0

War between North Korea and Japan

Sensen fukoku

2002

Rock Requiem poster
10.0

Four young high school students who dream of being in a rock band must deal with the unexpected deaths of their friends while making concert decisions.

Rock Requiem

1988

I Like You! poster
NR

A romantic comedy, it comically depicts a great twist of fate between a young man who leads an attractive life and a girl who was unlucky in life.

I Like You!

1990

Nanmin Road poster
9.0

The story of four Vietnamese people moving to Japan.

Nanmin Road

1992

Shonen budokan poster
NR

Concert movie.

Shonen budokan

1988

Budo: The Art of Killing poster
6.6

Budo: The Art of Killing is an award winning 1978 Japanese martial arts documentary created and produced by Hisao Masuda and financed by The Arthur Davis Company. Considered a cult classic, the film is a compilation of various Japanese martial art demonstrations by several famous Japanese instructors such as Gozo Shioda, Taizaburo Nakamura and Teruo Hayashi. Martial arts featured in the film include: Karate, Aikido, Kendo, Sumo, and Judo among others.

Budo: The Art of Killing

1979

No artwork available
NR

This documentary follows the training regimen of fighters from all over the world as they prepare for the prestigious all-world full contact karate tournament in Japan.

The Strongest Karate

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Majoran poster
NR

Set in Osaka, this film depicts a tough-girl who falls for an unknown rock guitarist and throws herself into efforts to make his band get big.

Majoran

1984