Satsuo Yamamoto
Born: 1910-07-15 in 日本, 鹿儿岛县
Died: 1983-08-11
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Satsuo Yamamoto (July 15, 1910 - August 11, 1983) was a Japanese film director. Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 15, 1910. He dropped out of Waseda University to join Shochiku, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse and others. He followed Naruse when he moved to PCL, and became a director in his own right after the company was reborn as Toho. During WWII he directed several pro-war propaganda films for them despite being a fervent member of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), and after the war he rallied against the company as a driving force behind the union during the 1948 Toho labour dispute (in which the JCP was heavily involved), after which was ultimately fired. He subsequently worked on independent films and made numerous intensely rebellious and substantial socially conscious works. From the 1960s onward, he directed a succession of major films including the Toyoko Yamasaki adaptations “The Ivory Tower” and “The Perfect Family”, the “Men and War” trilogy, and “Kotei no inai Hachigatsu”. This body of epic works led to him being dubbed “the Red Cecil B. DeMille”. Three of his films, Shiroi Kyotō, Fumō Chitai and Ah! Nomugi Toge won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film. He died of pancreatic cancer on August 11, 1983 at the age of 73. Description above from the Wikipedia article Satsuo Yamamoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1982
- Ah! Nomugi Pass — Fresh Green Edition ... (Director)
1981
- Auto Town ... (Director)
1979
- Nomugi Pass ... (Director)
1978
- August Without Emperor ... (Director)
1977
- United Vietnam ... (Director)
1976
- The Corporation ... (Director)
- The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh ... (Director)
1975
- Solar Eclipse ... (Director)
1974
- The Family ... (Director)
1973
- Men and War III: The Final Chapter ... (Director)
1971
- Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow ... (Director)
1970
- Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny ... (Director)
- Okinawa ... (Producer)
1968
- The Bride from Hades ... (Director)
- Slave Factory ... (Director)
1967
- Zatoichi the Outlaw ... (Director)
- The Bogus Policeman ... (Director)
1966
- The Great White Tower ... (Director)
- Freezing Point ... (Director)
1965
- Tale of Japanese Burglars ... (Director)
- The Spy ... (Director)
- The Witness' Chair ... (Director)
1964
- A Public Benefactor ... (Director)
1963
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance ... (Director)
- The Red Water ... (Screenplay)
1962
- Ninja, A Band of Assassins ... (Director)
- Farm Girls ... (Director)
1961
- The Matsukawa Incident ... (Director)
1960
- The War Without Weapons ... (Director)
1959
- The Human Wall ... (Director)
- The Song of the Cart ... (Director)
1958
- His Scarlet Cloak ... (Director)
1956
- Typhoon Furor ... (Director)
- Avalanche ... (Director)
1955
- If Indeed One Loves ... (Director)
- Floating Weeds Diary ... (Director)
1954
- The Street Without Sun ... (Director)
- The End of a Day ... (Director)
1952
- Vacuum Zone ... (Director)
- The Stand in Hakone ... (Screenplay)
1950
- Town of Violence ... (Director)
1949
- Utako's Story ... (Director)
1947
- War and Peace ... (Director)
1943
- Searing Wind ... (Director)
1942
- Wings of Victory ... (Director)
1941
- It's Paradise When One Sings ... (Director)
1940
- A Gentle Breeze With Father ... (Director)
- The Sisters' Agreement ... (Director)
1939
- The Town ... (Director)
- Beautiful Departure ... (Director)
- The New Tange Sazen: The Chapter of the Two-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- Madam with a Ribbon ... (Director)
1938
- Pastoral Symphony ... (Director)
- Family Diary Part II ... (Director)
- Family Diary Part I ... (Director)
1937
- Mother's Melody ... (Director)
- Young Lady ... (Director)
1936
- The Responsibility of Kissing ... (Assistant Director)
1934
- Street Without End ... (Assistant Director)
1932
- Sports ... (Director)