Satsuo Yamamoto - Фильмы

Satsuo Yamamoto (15 Июля, 1910 - August 11, 1983) was a Japanese film director. Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on Июль 15, 1910. He dropped out of Waseda University to join Shochiku, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse и прочее. He of 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 пропаганда 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 были the JCP was heavily участие), после были was ultimately загорелся. 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” и “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 и Ах! Nomugi того, насколько большую ценность won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film. He died of pancreatic cancer on August 11, 1983 at the age of 73.