Yuzo Kawashima

Japanese film director (1918-1963)

0.96body-of-work score · ranked #912 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
February 4, 1918 · Mutsu
Died
June 11, 1963 · Tokyo
Nationality
Japan, Empire of Japan
Work
film director, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Yuzo Kawashima
Kenichiro3161 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    1957 · Japan · comedy

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1957 #4 · Kurosawa's 100 favorite films

    0.612 citations
  2. 2
    The Graceful Bruteしとやかな獣

    1962 · Japan · comedy

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1963 #6

    0.361 citation

Complete filmography

All 20 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1946Nikoniko taikai
  • 1952こんな私じゃなかったに
  • 1953New Tokyo March
  • 1953Ojōsan shachō
  • 1953東京マダムと大阪夫人
  • 1955Tales of Ginza
  • 1956Suzaki Paradise: Red Light
  • 1956The Balloon
  • 1957Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
  • 1958The Shop Curtain
  • 1960Hito Mo Arukeba
  • 1960赤坂の姉妹より 夜の肌
  • 1961Kaei
  • 1961Romance Express
  • 1961Women Are Born Twice
  • 1962Mount Hakone
  • 1962The Graceful Brute
  • 1962The Temple of Wild Geese
  • 1963Fifty-Fifty
  • 1963Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai