Satsuo Yamamoto

Directing·Jul 15, 1910·日本, 鹿儿岛县

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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.

Film	Credit
Ah! Nomugi Pass — Fresh Green Edition1982 · Director	Director
Auto Town1981 · Director	Director
Nomugi Pass1979 · Director	Director
August Without Emperor1978 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
United Vietnam1977 · Director	Director
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh1976 · Director	Director
The Corporation1976 · Director	Director
Solar Eclipse1975 · Director	Director
The Family1974 · Director	Director
Men and War III: The Final Chapter1973 · Director	Director
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow1971 · Director	Director
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny1970 · Director	Director
Okinawa1970 · Producer	Producer
Blood End1969 · Director	Director
Vietnam1969 · Director	Director
The Bride from Hades1968 · Director	Director
Slave Factory1968 · Director	Director
Zatoichi the Outlaw1967 · Director	Director
The Bogus Policeman1967 · Director	Director
The Great White Tower1966 · Director	Director
Freezing Point1966 · Director	Director
The Spy1965 · Director	Director
The Witness' Chair1965 · Director	Director
Tale of Japanese Burglars1965 · Director	Director
A Public Benefactor1964 · Director	Director
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance1963 · Director	Director
The Red Water1963 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Ninja, A Band of Assassins1962 · Director	Director
Farm Girls1962 · Director	Director
The Matsukawa Incident1961 · Director	Director
The War Without Weapons1960 · Director	Director
The Human Wall1959 · Director	Director
The Song of the Cart1959 · Director	Director
His Scarlet Cloak1958 · Director	Director
Typhoon Furor1956 · Director	Director
Avalanche1956 · Director	Director
Floating Weeds Diary1955 · Director	Director
If Indeed One Loves1955 · Director	Director
The Street Without Sun1954 · Director	Director
The End of a Day1954 · Director	Director
Vacuum Zone1952 · Director	Director
The Stand in Hakone1952 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Town of Violence1950 · Director	Director
Utako's Story1949 · Director	Director
War and Peace1947 · Director	Director
Searing Wind1943 · Director	Director
Wings of Victory1942 · Director	Director
It's Paradise When One Sings1941 · Director	Director