Zenzō Matsuyama
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1957–1964
- Schools and movements
- Japanese Golden Age
Directors worked with
Biography
Zenzō Matsuyama was a Japanese screenwriter and film director. He was born in Kobe and grew up in Yokohama. After leaving school, he began training to become a doctor but dropped out of medical school to take up a career in films. In 1948 he became an assistant director at Shochiku studios. With the support of Keisuke Kinoshita, he also began writing film scripts. His first filmed script was Kojo no tsuki, based on the song "Kōjō no Tsuki", filmed in 1954. In 1955 he married actress Hideko Takamine. He made his debut as a director with a film called Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku in 1961. He continued to work as a scriptwriter for films like Proof of the Man as well as a director. He also wrote the lyrics for a song "Ippon no enpitsu" for Hibari Misora.
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Awards and honours
National / local
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay 1962
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay 1994
2 films on this site
- Black River 1957 · Masaki Kobayashi · IMDb 7.2 · Writer
- Yearning 1964 · Mikio Naruse · IMDb 8.0 · Writer