‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’ director Toshio Masuda dies at 98; ‘Space Battleship Yamato’ earns 2.1 billion yen in 1977
Masuda directed ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’ after Akira Kurosawa’s departure and made 25 films with Yujiro Ishihara
Box-office titan of his era leaves behind a genre-spanning legacy Toshio Masuda, a director who helped lead Japan’s film industry through its golden age and worked across action, romance and animation, has died.