Satsuo Yamamoto
Kei Yamamoto (nephew) 10 July 1910 – 11 August 1983 was a Japanese film director.
Satsuo Yamamoto
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- Name
- Satsuo Yamamoto
- Born
- 15 July 1910
- Birthplace
- Kagoshima City, Japan
- Died
- 11 August 1983
- Place of death
- Tokyo
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Honours
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director · Mainichi Film Award for Best Director
- Languages
- Japanese
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• Name — Satsuo Yamamoto • Born — 15 July 1910 • Birthplace — Kagoshima City, Japan • Died — 11 August 1983 • Place of death — Tokyo • Occupation — Film director • Relatives — Kei Yamamoto (nephew) 10 July 1910 – 11 August 1983 was a Japanese film director.
Career
Career
Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima City. After leaving Waseda University, where he had become affiliated with left-wing groups, he joined the Shochiku film studios in 1933, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse. He followed Naruse when the latter moved to P.C.L. film studios (later Toho) and debuted as a director in 1937 with Ojōsan. During World War II he directed the propaganda films Winged Victory and Hot Winds before being drafted and sent to China. After returning to Japan, Yamamoto's first film was War and Peace, co-directed with Fumio Kamei. Being a communist and an active supporter of the union during the Toho strikes, he left the studio in 1948 after the strikes' forced ending and turned to independent filmmaking. The commercially successful Street of Violence (1950) was produced by a committee named after the film's original title Bōryoku no machi, while the left-wing production company Shinsei Eiga-sha ("New star films"), formed by former Toho unionists, produced the anti-war film Vacuum Zone (1953), which film historian Donald Richie called "the strongest anti-military film ever made in Japan" in 1959. The 1959 Ballad of the Cart was produced by the National Rural Film Association and won him the Mainichi Film Award for Best Director. In the 1960s, Yamamoto again worked for major companies like Daiei and Nikkatsu, directing films like Band of Assassins (1962), The Ivory Tower (1966) and Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967). He died in Tokyo on 11 August 1983, at the age of 73.
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Satsuo Yamamoto died at Tokyo.
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Kagoshima Prefecture.
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Books
• Yamamoto Satsuo: My Life as a Filmmaker (私の映画人生, Watakushi no eiga jinsei), published in English in 2017 by University of Michigan Press, translated by Chia-ning Chang. - It is an autobiography that was first published after Yamamoto died.
『 暴力の街 』（1950年）の撮影現場。監督の山本薩夫。
映画出版社 · 『新映画』1950年3月号。発行所：映画出版社。
Films
• Title — Studio — Release date • Ojosan — PCL — 1937 • War and Peace — Toho — 22 July 1947 • Konna Onnani Daregashita — Toyoko Film (Distributed by Daiei Film) — 4 July 1949 • Street of Violence Boryoku no Machi — Bōryoku no machi production committee (Distributed by Daiei Film) — 26 February 1950 • Hakone Fūunroku — Shinsei Film, Zenshin Za — 14 March 1952 • Vacuum Zone Shinkūchitai — Hokuto Film — 15 December 1952 • Hi no Hate — Yagi Pro/Sehai (Distributed by Shochiku Film) — 3 February 1954 • Taiyō no nai Machi — Shinsei Film — 24 June 1954 • Taifu Sodoki — Yamamoto Production — 19 December 1956 • Ballad of the Cart Niguruma no Uta — Zenkoku Noson Eiga Kyokai — 11 February 1959 • Ningen no Kabe — Yamamoto Production (Distributed by Shintoho) — 27 January 1961 • Matsukawa Jiken — Matsukawa Jikengeki Eiga Seisakuiinkai — 27 January 1961 • Shinobi no Mono — Daiei Film — 1 December 1962 • Zoku Shinobi no Mono — Daiei Film — 10 August 1963 • Nippon Dorobō Monogatari — Daiei Film — 1 May 1965 • Ivory Tower — Daiei Film — 15 October 1966 • The Bride From Hades — Daiei Film — 15 June 1968 • Men and War Senso to Ningen — Nikkatsu — 14 August 1970 (I) 12 June 1971 (II) 11 August 1973 (III) • Karei-naru Ichizoku — Geiensha (Distributed by Toho) — 26 January 1974 • Kinkanshoku — Daiei (Distributed by Toho) — 6 September 1975 • Barren Land — Geiensha (Distributed by Toho) — 14 August 1976 • Kōtei no Inai Hachigatsu — Shochiku — 23 September 1978 • Nomugi Pass Ah Nomugi Toge — Shin Nihon Eiga (Distributed by Toho) — 30 June 1979 • Nomugi Pass Shinryokuhen Ah Nomugi Toge Shinrokuhen — Toho — 6 February 1982
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scholarly publication
- My Life as a Filmmaker by Yamamoto Satsuo, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 2018
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- “Satsuo Yamamoto”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• Kinema Junpo Awards Yamamoto received the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Director for Ivory Tower, which was also awarded Best Film. • Blue Ribbon Awards Yamamoto won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director for Shōnin no isu and Nippon dorobō monogatari (both 1965). Ivory Tower was awarded Best Film the following year. • Mainichi Fim Awards Yamamoto was awarded Best Director at the Mainichi Film Awards for Ballad of the Cart and Ningen no kane (both 1959), Ivory Tower, Men and War and Barren Land. Ivory Tower, Barren Land and Nomugi Pass were winners in the Best Film category. • Festival prizes Ivory Tower was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it was awarded the Silver Prize.
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Satsuo Yamamoto is recorded as having received Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director and Mainichi Film Award for Best Director.
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