Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Directing
- February 15, 1911 · Tokyo, Japan
- July 26, 1983
Biography
Kimiyoshi Yasuda was a Japanese film director from the 1930s to 1970s. He directed six films about Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman. He signed with Nikkatsu Kyoto studio as an assistant director and started working as an assistant director under Sadao Yamanaka and Hiroshi Inagaki etc.
Known for
Filmography
- Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Kasane Swamp · Writer
- Japanese Masterpiece Ghost Story Theatre · Screenplay
- Hanshichi Torimonocho · Creator
- Priest of Darkness · Director
- Mute Samurai · Director, Writer
- Zatoichi's Conspiracy · Director
- Kogarashi Monjiro · Director
- Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman · Director, Screenplay
- Ghost of Kasane Swamp · Director
- Second Generation Young Boss · Director
- Lefty Fencer · Director
- Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts · Director
- Sworn Brothers · Director
- Sequel: Secret Report From A Women's Prison · Director
- Zatoichi and the Fugitives · Director
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair · Director
- Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters · Director
- The Hoodlum Priest · Director
- Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend · Director
- Tokyo Gambler · Director
- Zatoichi's Cane Sword · Director
- 殺人者 · Director
- Daimajin · Director
- New Tengu from Mount Kurama · Director
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan · Director
- Adventures of Zatoichi · Director
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing · Director
- Zatoichi on the Road · Director
- Kumoemon to sono tsuma · Director
- Ame no Kudan-zaka · Director
- すっとび仁義 · Director
- 晴小袖 · Director
- Genroku onna daimyō · Director
- Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane · Director
- Oja sando gosa · Director
- Yosakoi sandogasa · Director
- Tsukikage Hyōgo: Jōdan kasumigiri · Director
- Chiyoda Castle in Flames · Director
- Beni azami · Director
- Tenryū no karasu · Director
- Hana no yukyo-den · Director
- Megitsune Buro · Director
- Fūraibō ichiban shōbu · Director
- Hanatarō Jumon · Director
- Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil · Director
- Akado Suzunosuke and the Vacuum Slash of the Asuka School · Director
- Akado Suzunosuke Destroys the Devil Mask Gang · Director
- Fighting Letter for 29 People · Director
- Haha shirayuki · Director
- The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane Continued · Director
- The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane · Director
- Tsukiyo no aho dori · Director
- Ninjutsu senshuken jiai · Director
- Ninjutsu musha shūgyō · Director
- Shirai Gonpachi · Director
- Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 2 · Director
- Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1 · Director
- The Dancer and Two Warriors · Director
- The Young Lord · Director
- The Young Swordsman · Director
- Date sōdō: Haha goten · Director
- 関八州勢揃い · Director
- Maiko monogatari · Director
- Kai nusumadara kumo · Director
- Zoku suna-e jubaku: Yukijorō · Director
- Suna-e jubaku · Director
- Hiren tsubaki · Director
- Haha no hitomi · Director
- Sado Island Elegy · Director
- Furisode kyōjo · Director
- Izayoi kaidō · Director
- Jōen no hatoba · Director
- The Red Key · Director
- Tetsuro no dankon · Director
- Komusō yashiki · Director, Screenplay
- Pirate Island · Director
- Condor · Director
- The Elephant Who Waited · Director
- Haha koiboshi · Director
- The Man Who Laughs Last · Director