Satsuo Yamamoto
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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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movieAuto Town
1981
Director
movieNomugi Pass
1979
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movieAugust Without Emperor
1978
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movieUnited Vietnam
1977
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movieThe Corporation
1976
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movieSolar Eclipse
1975
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movieThe Family
1974
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movieBlood End
1969
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movieVietnam
1969
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movieThe Bride from Hades
1968
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movieSlave Factory
1968
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movieZatoichi the Outlaw
1967
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movieThe Bogus Policeman
1967
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movieThe Great White Tower
1966
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movieFreezing Point
1966
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movieThe Spy
1965
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movieThe Witness' Chair
1965
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movieA Public Benefactor
1964
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movieThe Red Water
1963
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movieFarm Girls
1962
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movieThe Matsukawa Incident
1961
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movieThe War Without Weapons
1960
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movieThe Human Wall
1959
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movieThe Song of the Cart
1959
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movieHis Scarlet Cloak
1958
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movieTyphoon Furor
1956
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movieAvalanche
1956
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movieFloating Weeds Diary
1955
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movieIf Indeed One Loves
1955
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movieThe Street Without Sun
1954
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movieThe End of a Day
1954
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movieVacuum Zone
1952
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movieThe Stand in Hakone
1952
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movieTown of Violence
1950
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movieUtako's Story
1949
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movieWar and Peace
1947
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movieSearing Wind
1943
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movieWings of Victory
1942
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movieThe Sisters' Agreement
1940
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movieThe Town
1939
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movieBeautiful Departure
1939
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moviePastoral Symphony
1938
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movieYoung Lady
1937
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movieMother's Melody
1937
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movieThe Responsibility of Kissing
1936
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movieStreet Without End
1934
Assistant Director
movieSports
1932
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Writing4
movieAugust Without Emperor
1978
Screenplay
movieThe Red Water
1963
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movieThe Stand in Hakone
1952
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movieBeautiful Departure
1939
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Editing1
movieVietnam
1969
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movieOkinawa
1970
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