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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.
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1934
Street Without EndAssistant Director
1954
The Street Without SunDirector
1954
The End of a DayDirector
1959
The Song of the CartDirector
1962
Ninja, a Band of AssassinsDirector
1962
Chibusa o daku musume tachiDirector
1963
Shinobi no Mono 2: VengeanceDirector
1966
The Great White TowerDirector
1967
Zatoichi the OutlawDirector
1968
The Bride from HadesDirector
1971
Men and War IIDirector
1974
The FamilyDirector
1975
Solar EclipseDirector
1978
August without EmperorDirector and Screenplay
1979
Nomugi PassDirector
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