---
name: "Shigemasa Toda"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shigemasa-toda"
fi1m_id: "shigemasa-toda"
imdb_id: "nm0865077"
tmdb_id: 552639
wikidata_id: "Q119450708"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "3 February 1928"
died: "25 January 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T00:08:17.522882+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."
---

# Shigemasa Toda

## Identity

Shigemasa Toda

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shigemasa-toda
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shigemasa-toda
- **IMDb ID:** nm0865077
- **TMDB ID:** 552639
- **Wikidata ID:** Q119450708
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119450708, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865077/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552639

Production designer. Born 3 February 1928 in Tokyo, Japan. Died 25 January 1987.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 3 February 1928, Tokyo, Japan
- **Died:** 25 January 1987
- **Active:** 1962–1976
- **Also known as:** 戸田 重昌, Jūshō Toda
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 91 (1), 1970s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119450708, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865077/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552639

## Biography

Shigemasa Toda (also credited as Jūshō Toda or Jusho Toda) was a Japanese art director and production designer. Born in Tokyo on 3 February 1928, he died on 25 January 1987. He began working in film in the 1950s as an assistant art director and received his first art director credit in 1962.

Toda collaborated frequently with director Nagisa Ōshima, contributing production design or art direction to films including *Violence at Noon* (1966), *Boy* (1969), *Death by Hanging* (1968), *In the Realm of the Senses* (1976, also costume design), and *Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence* (1983). He also worked on *Harakiri* (1962) and *Kwaidan* (1965). He received two wins and two nominations from Japanese film awards.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmreference.com, criterion.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *In the Realm of the Senses* (1976), Fi1m 74, Production Design, Production design, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-realm-of-the-senses.md)
- *Harakiri* (1962), Fi1m 91, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/harakiri.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *The Empty Table* (1985), as Art Direction
- *Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence* (1983), Production Design
- *In the Realm of the Senses* (1976), Production Design, Costume Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-realm-of-the-senses.md)
- *The Tattered Banner* (1974), as Art Direction
- *Dear Summer Sister* (1972), as Art Direction
- *The Ceremony* (1971), as Art Direction
- *The Man Who Left His Will on Film* (1970), as Art Direction
- *The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan* (1970), as Art Direction
- *Boy* (1969), Production Design, Art Direction
- *Diary of a Shinjuku Thief* (1969), as Art Direction
- *Death by Hanging* (1968), Production Design
- *Japanese Summer: Double Suicide* (1967), as Art Direction
- *Sing a Song of Sex* (1967), as Art Direction
- *Clouds at Sunset* (1967), as Art Direction
- *Violence at Noon* (1966), as Art Direction · Production Designer
- *Captive's Island* (1966), as Art Direction
- *The Betrayers Out!* (1966), as Art Direction
- *Kwaidan* (1965), as Art Direction
- *Pale Flower* (1964), as Art Direction
- *Harakiri* (1962), as Art Direction — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/harakiri.md)
- *Mother Country* (1962), as Art Direction
- *The Inheritance* (1962), as Art Direction

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