Satsuo Yamamoto
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.
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His Scarlet Cloak
1958 · Director
Sports
1932 · Director
Solar Eclipse
1975 · Director
It's Paradise When One Sings
1941 · Director
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962 · Director
August Without Emperor
1978 · Director
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1973 · Director
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963 · Director
The Great White Tower
1966 · Director
The Red Water
1963 · Director
The Bride from Hades
1968 · Director
Freezing Point
1966 · Director
Zatoichi the Outlaw
1967 · Director
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1970 · Director
The Family
1974 · Director
The Spy
1965 · Director
The Street Without Sun
1954 · Director
Nomugi Pass
1979 · Director
Farm Girls
1962 · Director
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
1976 · Director
The End of a Day
1954 · Director
Young Lady
1937 · Director
The Matsukawa Incident
1961 · Director
The Corporation
1976 · Director
The Human Wall
1959 · Director
Vietnam
1969 · Director
Blood End
1969 · Director
The War Without Weapons
1960 · Director
The Song of the Cart
1959 · Director
Wings of Victory
1942 · Director
Searing Wind
1943 · Director
The Bogus Policeman
1967 · Director
Floating Weeds Diary
1955 · Director
Town of Violence
1950 · Director
Ah! Nomugi Pass — Fresh Green Edition
1982 · Director
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1971 · Director
The Witness' Chair
1965 · Director
A Public Benefactor
1964 · Director
Auto Town
1981 · Director
The Town
1939 · Director
Utako's Story
1949 · Director
Vacuum Zone
1952 · Director
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965 · Director
Beautiful Departure
1939 · Director
The Stand in Hakone
1952 · Director
If Indeed One Loves
1955 · Director
United Vietnam
1977 · Director
Typhoon Furor
1956 · Director
War and Peace
1947 · Director
Avalanche
1956 · Director
Slave Factory
1968 · Director
A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940 · Director
Mother's Melody
1937 · Director
The Sisters' Agreement
1940 · Director
Pastoral Symphony
1938 · Director