---
name: "Masato Ide"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/masato-ide"
fi1m_id: "masato-ide"
imdb_id: "nm0406836"
tmdb_id: 34372
wikidata_id: "Q26776561"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1920"
died: "17 July 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:25:35.455458+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Masato Ide

## Identity

Masato Ide

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/masato-ide
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** masato-ide
- **IMDb ID:** nm0406836
- **TMDB ID:** 34372
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26776561
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masato_Ide, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26776561, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406836/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34372

Writer. Born 1 January 1920 in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Died 17 July 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1920, Saga City, Saga Prefecture, Japan
- **Died:** 17 July 1989
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masato_Ide, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26776561, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406836/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34372

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Ran*](https://film.one/film/ran.md) (92)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Masato Ide (1920–1989) was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. He wrote screenplays for more than fifty films and collaborated with director Akira Kurosawa from 1963.

His credits with Kurosawa include *Red Beard* (1965), *Kagemusha* (1980) and *Ran* (1985). He also wrote for other directors, including Yoshitarō Nomura on *The Demon* (1978).

Ide received a BAFTA nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for *Ran*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ran* (1985), Fi1m 92, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/ran.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Oil-Hell Murder* (1992), Screenplay
- *The Story of Jiro* (1987), Screenplay
- *Surgical Designs in Flames* (1986), Screenplay
- *Ran* (1985), Screenplay — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/ran.md)
- *Kitsune* (1983), Writer
- *Confessions of a Wife* (1983), Screenplay
- *Writhing Tongue* (1980), Writer
- *The Wicked* (1980), Screenplay
- *Kagemusha* (1980), Screenplay
- *The Demon* (1978), Writer
- *Dynamite Don-Don* (1978), Screenplay
- *The Alaska Story* (1977), Screenplay
- *Kenkaku Shōbai* (1973), series, Screenplay
- *Kataashi no ēsu* (1971), Screenplay
- *Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament* (1968), Screenplay
- *The Sands of Kurobe* (1968), Screenplay
- *Family of Women* (1967), Writer
- *Rise Against the Sword* (1966), Screenplay
- *The Betrayers Out!* (1966), Screenplay
- *The Witness' Chair* (1965), Writer
- *Red Beard* (1965), Screenplay
- *The Scarlet Camellia* (1964), Screenplay
- *The Rabble* (1964), Screenplay
- *Muchana Yakko* (1964), Screenplay
- *Outpost of Hell* (1963), Writer
- *Assassins for sale* (1963), Screenplay
- *A Man with Dragon Tattoos* (1962), Screenplay
- *假名手本忠臣蔵* (1962), Screenplay
- *Tatsu* (1962), Screenplay
- *Otoko no Uta* (1962), Screenplay
- *The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy* (1961), Screenplay
- *Bandits on the Wind* (1961), Screenplay
- *A Wife Confesses* (1961), Screenplay
- *Beware of The Gunman* (1961), Screenplay
- *The Master Spearman* (1960), Screenplay
- *The Forbidden Scoop* (1960), Screenplay
- *Points and Lines* (1958), Writer
- *Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi* (1958), Screenplay
- *直八子供旅* (1958), Screenplay
- *The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword* (1957), Adaptation
- *A Matter of Valour* (1957), Writer
- *The Face* (1957), Screenplay
- *Outlaw island* (1956), Screenplay
- *流轉* (1956), Adaptation
- *Troupers of Asakusa* (1955), Adaptation
- *A Man Among Men* (1955), Writer
- *Picture Book of Sarutobi Sasuke* (1953), Adaptation
- *親馬鹿花合戦* (1953), Screenplay
- *Koi no rantō* (1951), Screenplay

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