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Satsuo Yamamoto
日本, 鹿儿岛县
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Satsuo Yamamoto (July 15, 1910 - August 11, 1983) was a Japanese film director. Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 15, 1910…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Satsuo Yamamoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1982
Ah! Nomugi Pass — Fresh Green Edition
Movie Director
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1981
Auto Town
Movie Director
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1979
Nomugi Pass
Movie Director
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1978
August Without Emperor
Movie Director
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1977
United Vietnam
Movie Director
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1976
The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
Movie Director
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1976
The Corporation
Movie Director
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1975
Solar Eclipse
Movie Director
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1974
The Family
Movie Director
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1973
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Movie Director
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1971
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Movie Director
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1970
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Movie Director
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1970
Okinawa
Movie Producer
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1969
Blood End
Movie Director
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1969
Vietnam
Movie Director
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1968
The Bride from Hades
Movie Director
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1968
Slave Factory
Movie Director
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1967
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Movie Director
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1967
The Bogus Policeman
Movie Director
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1966
The Great White Tower
Movie Director
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1966
Freezing Point
Movie Director
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1965
The Spy
Movie Director
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1965
The Witness' Chair
Movie Director
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1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Movie Director
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1964
A Public Benefactor
Movie Director
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1963
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Movie Director
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1963
The Red Water
Movie Director
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1962
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Movie Director
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1962
Farm Girls
Movie Director
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1961
The Matsukawa Incident
Movie Director
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1960
The War Without Weapons
Movie Director
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1959
The Human Wall
Movie Director
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1959
The Song of the Cart
Movie Director
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1958
His Scarlet Cloak
Movie Director
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1956
Typhoon Furor
Movie Director
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1956
Avalanche
Movie Director
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1955
Floating Weeds Diary
Movie Director
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1955
If Indeed One Loves
Movie Director
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1954
The Street Without Sun
Movie Director
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1954
The End of a Day
Movie Director
