Satsuo Yamamoto

Instruktør, Forfatter, Producer

15. juli 1910 — 11. august 1983 (73 år)
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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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Film og serier på Plex

  • The Bride from Hades
    The Bride from Hades1968

Kendt for

  • Zatoichi the Outlaw
    Zatoichi the Outlaw1967
  • Ninja, a Band of Assassins
    Ninja, a Band of Assassins1962
  • The Bride from Hades
    The Bride from Hades1968
  • The Great White Tower
    The Great White Tower1966
  • Street Without End
    Street Without End1934
  • Freezing Point
    Freezing Point1966
  • August Without Emperor
    August Without Emperor1978
  • Men and War II
    Men and War II1971
  • Ballad of the Cart
    Ballad of the Cart1959
  • Kinkanshoku
    Kinkanshoku1975
  • Slaget der satte verden i brand
    Slaget der satte verden i brand1970
  • Shinkû chitai
    Shinkû chitai1952
  • Oh! The Nomugi Pass
    Oh! The Nomugi Pass1979
  • Tale of Japanese Burglars
    Tale of Japanese Burglars1965
  • Men and War III
    Men and War III1973
  • Hakone fûunroku
    Hakone fûunroku1952