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 (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”. He died of pancreatic cancer on August 11, 1983 at the age of 73.

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*cite news |last=Kato|first=Mariko|title=SATSUO YAMAMOTO: Classic director remembered|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fq20080125a1.html|publisher=The Japan Times|date=2008-01-25|accessdate=2008-01-31|language=English
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E4DA1F39F931A2575BC0A965948260 Satsuo Yamamoto obituary at New York Times]


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