Satsuo Yamamoto

Yamamoto Satsuo

  • Name: Yamamoto Satsuo
  • Native name: 山本薩夫
  • Also Known as: やまもと さつお
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: July 15, 1910
  • Died: August 11, 1983
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 World War II 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.

In his posthumous autobiography, My Life as a Filmmaker, Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy (University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-07333-7).( Source: Wikipedia) Edit Biography
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1982
Movie
2.0
1979
Movie
7.0
1978
Movie
7.2
1976
Movie
2.0
1975
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0.0
1974
Movie
0.0
1973
Movie
7.0
1971
Movie
6.0
1970
Movie
6.0
1969
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4.0
1968
Movie
6.7
1967
Movie
7.5
1966
Movie
7.5
1966
Drama
0.0
1966
Movie
6.8
1965
Spy
Spy
Movie
1.0
1965
Movie
2.0
1965
Movie
7.0
1964
Movie
0.0
1963
Movie
7.3
1962
Movie
7.1
1961
Movie
0.0
1959
Movie
7.0
1959
Movie
7.5
1952
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0.0
1950
Movie
6.0
1949
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0.0
1947
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0.0
1942
Movie
2.0
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
1963
Movie
0.0
1952
Movie
0.0
Assistant Director
Year Title Type Rating
1934
Movie
7.3
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  • First Name: Satsuo
  • Family Name: Yamamoto
  • Native name: 山本薩夫
  • Also Known as: やまもと さつお
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: July 15, 1910
  • Died: August 11, 1983

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