Masayuki Suō

Masayuki Suō

Directing
1956-10-29
Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Masayuki Suo (周防 正行, Suo Masayuki; born October 29, 1956) is a Japanese film director. He is best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) and Shall We Dance? (1996).

Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles

#1Kandagawa Pervert Wars

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Apartment Manager

5.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.

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#2The Tomb & the Divorce

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Comedy

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease.

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#3Tokyo Fair Weather

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.2 / 10
Drama

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

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#4Wolf: Running Is Sex

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Clerk

1.7 / 10
Drama

A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his primal lifestyle begins living with him.

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#5119

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…

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#6Kodawari Otoko to Marusa no Onna

Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes as Self

3.5 / 10
Drama

2012 NHK drama based on the Juzo Itami film "A Taxing Woman" (Marusa no Onna).

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