Satsuo Yamamoto
Directing
Born 1910-07-15
Died 1983-08-11
日本, 鹿儿岛县
62 credits
Mainichi Film Award for Best Director 1
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 1
Awards
Won 1 Mainichi Film Award for Best Director Award
Mainichi Film Award for Best Director 1 won
- — Best Director Won
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 1 won
- 1966 Best Director Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Directing
57 credits
Sports
His Scarlet Cloak
August Without Emperor
Solar Eclipse
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Searing Wind
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Nomugi Pass
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
The Corporation
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
A Public Benefactor
The Street Without Sun
The Bride from Hades
Tale of Japanese Burglars
The Family
The Great White Tower
Vacuum Zone
Ah! Nomugi Pass — Fresh Green Edition
The War Without Weapons
Family Diary Part I
Young Lady
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
The Witness' Chair
Madam with a Ribbon
The Human Wall
Auto Town
Family Diary Part II
Freezing Point
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Slave Factory
Vietnam
Blood End
The Stand in Hakone
Wings of Victory
The Red Water
Typhoon Furor
Farm Girls
If Indeed One Loves
The Song of the Cart
It's Paradise When One Sings
The Bogus Policeman
The Town
The Spy
Floating Weeds Diary
Town of Violence
The New Tange Sazen: The Chapter of the Two-Armed Swordsman
The Matsukawa Incident
Avalanche
Pastoral Symphony
Utako's Story
The End of a Day
Beautiful Departure
War and Peace
United Vietnam
Mother's Melody
Writing
4 credits
Other credits
3 credits
Producing
1 credit
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