Masakatsu Kaneko

Birth : 1918-06-07, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Death : 2007-11-21

Movies

Aoi sanmyaku
Producer
Remake of 1949 film
The Beast Shall Die
Producer
Japanese crime thriller
Little Adventurer
Executive Producer
Mickey, a smart student from England, is on his trip to Japan for vacation. He meets with a Chinese girl Lin Fang on the way. They each have the same model of camera. But they have their cameras exchanged without their knowing it prior to their departure.
Hakuchô no uta nanka kikoenai
Producer
Young man and woman experience changes in their worldview and question the meaning of life after meeting a dying grandfather.
Attack at Daylight
Executive Producer
A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
Producer
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
Devils-in-Law
Producer
Green Light to Joy
Executive Producer
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
Two in the Shadow
Producer
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Pomegranate Time
Producer
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
Once a Rainy Day
Executive Producer
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Young Girls Are Everywhere
Producer
The Thin Line
Producer
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
Beast Alley
Producer
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Producer
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
A Woman's Life
Executive Producer
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
Born in Sin
Executive Producer
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
Our Failures
Producer
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
Ayako
Producer
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.
Woman of Design
Executive Producer
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
The End of Summer
Producer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
The Blue Beast
Executive Producer
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.
Beyond the Hills
Producer
Story of young love in the hills.
Someday I'll Know
Producer
A modern love story involving different affairs.
The Beast Shall Die
Producer
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
Bright Young Maidens
Producer
City of Love
Executive Producer
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.
Price of Beauty
Executive Producer
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
A Wife's Heart
Producer
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
Mr. Pu
Producer
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Producer
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.