
Satsuo Yamamoto
Biography
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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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Directing (53 movies)

Pastoral Symphony
1938

Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962

Vietnam
1969

Typhoon
1956

Witness Chair
1965

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963

Zatoichi the Outlaw
1967

War and Peace
1947

Blood End
1969

The Bride from Hades
1968

A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940

Beautiful Departure
1939

The Great White Tower
1966

Sports
1932

Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen
1982

August without Emperor
1978

The Bogus Policeman
1967

A Public Benefactor
1964

The Family
1974

The Song of the Cart
1959

Nomugi Pass
1979

Thong Nhat Vietnam
1977

Dorei kōjō
1968

The Red Water
1963

Avalanche
1956

Konna onna ni dare ga shita
1949

Solar Eclipse
1975

The Stand in Hakone
1952

Vacuum Zone
1952

The War Without Weapons
1960

The Spy
1965

Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965

His Scarlet Cloak
1958

The Human Wall
1959

Hot Wind
1943

Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1973

Street of Violence
1950

The Corporation
1976

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1970

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1971

The End of a Day
1954

Wings of Victory
1942

The Freezing Point
1966

Ai Sureba Koso
1955

The Street Without Sun
1954

Chibusa o daku musume tachi
1962

Asshii-tachi no machi
1981

Machi
1939

Floating Weeds Diary
1955

The Matsukawa Incident
1961

Mother's Melody
1937

Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
1976

A Sister's Promise
1940
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Departure | 1939 | Screenplay | 
| The Stand in Hakone | 1952 | Screenplay | 
| The Red Water | 1963 | Screenplay | 
| Okinawa | 1970 | Producer | 
| August without Emperor | 1978 | Screenplay |