Satsuo Yamamoto
Film director
1910 – 1983
Who was Satsuo Yamamoto?
Satsuo Yamamoto 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, and after the war he rallied against the company as a driving force behind the union during the 1948 Toho labour dispute, 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.
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- Born
- Jul 15, 1910
Kagoshima Prefecture - Also known as
- Yamamoto Satsuo
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Yoshie Kobayashi
(1935/04/08 - )
- Yoshie Kobayashi
- Nationality
- Japan
- Profession
- Education
- Waseda University
- Lived in
- Kagoshima Prefecture
- Died
- Aug 11, 1983
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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