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Satsuo Yamamoto (山本 薩夫, Yamamoto Satsuo, July 15, 1910 – August 11, 1983) was a Japanese film director.[1]

Satsuo Yamamoto
Satsuo Yamamoto in 1950.
Born	(1910-07-15)July 15, 1910 Kagoshima City, Japan
Died	August 11, 1983(1983-08-11) (aged 73) Tokyo
Occupation	Film director
Relatives	Kei Yamamoto (nephew)

Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima City. After leaving Waseda University, where he had become affiliated with left-wing groups, he joined the Shochiku film studios in 1933, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse.[2][3] He followed Naruse when the latter moved to P.C.L. film studios (later Toho) and debuted as a director in 1937 with Ojōsan.[2][3] During World War II he directed the propaganda films Winged Victory and Hot Winds[1][4] before being drafted and sent to China.[3]

After returning to Japan, Yamamoto's first film was the 1947 War and Peace (not based on the Leo Tolstoy novel),[5] co-directed with Fumio Kamei.[1][4] Being a communist and an active supporter of the union during the Toho labour strikes, he left the studio in 1948 after the strikes' forced ending and turned to independent filmmaking.[3][6] The left-wing production company Shinsei Eiga-sha, formed by former Toho unionists, produced his commercially successful Street of Violence (1950)[4][6] and the anti-war film Vacuum Zone (1953), which film historian Donald Richie called "the strongest anti-military film ever made in Japan" in 1959.[4] The 1959 Ballad of the Cart was produced by the National Rural Film Association.

In the 1960s, Yamamoto again worked for major companies like Daiei and Nikkatsu, directing films like Band of Assassins (1962), The Ivory Tower (1966) and Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967).[7] He died in Tokyo on August 11th 1983 at the age of 73.[2]

Selected filmography

Films

Title[8]	Studio	Release date
Ojosan お嬢さん	PCL	1937
Konna Onnani Daregashita こんな女に誰がした	Toyoko Film (Distributed by Daiei Film)	July 4, 1949
Street of Violence 暴力の街 Boryoku no Machi	Daiei Film	February 26, 1950
Hakone Fūunroku 箱根風雲録	Shinsei Film, Zenshin Za	March 14, 1952
Vacuum Zone 真空地帯 Shinkūchitai	Hokuto Film	December 15, 1952
Hi no Hate 日の果て	Shociku Film	February 3, 1954
Taiyō no nai Machi 太陽のない街	Shinsei Film	June 24, 1954
Taifu Sodoki 台風騒動記	Yamamoto Production	December 19, 1956
Ballad of the Cart 荷車の歌 Niguruma no Uta	Zenkoku Noson Eiga Kyokai	February 11, 1959
Ningen no Kabe 人間の壁	Yamamoto Production (Distributed by Shintoho)	January 27, 1961
Matsukawa Jiken 松川事件	Matsukawa Jikengeki Eiga Seisakuiinkai	January 27, 1961
Shinobi no Mono 忍びの者	Daiei Film	December 1, 1962
Zoku Shinobi no Mono 続・忍びの者	Daiei Film	August 10, 1963
Nippon Dorobō Monogatari にっぽん泥棒物語	Daiei Film	May 1, 1965
Ivory Tower 白い巨塔	Daiei Film	October 15, 1966
Men and War 戦争と人間 第一部 運命の序曲 Senso to Ningen Daiichibu Unmei no Jyokyoku	Nikkatsu	August 14, 1970
Karei-naru Ichizoku 華麗なる一族	Geiensha (Distributed by Toho)	January 26, 1974
Kinkanshoku 金環蝕	Daiei (Distributed by Toho)	September 6, 1975
Barren Land 不毛地帯	Geiensha (Distributed by Toho)	August 14, 1976
Kōtei no Inai Hachigatsu 皇帝のいない八月	Shochiku	September 23, 1978
Nomugi Pass あゝ野麦峠 Ah Nomugi Toge	Shin Nihon Eiga (Distributed by Toho)	June 30, 1979
Nomugi Pass Shinryokuhen あゝ野麦峠 新緑篇 Ah Nomugi Toge Shinrokuhen	Toho	February 6, 1982

Awards

Kinema Junpo Awards

Yamamoto received the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Director for Ivory Tower, which was also awarded Best Film.

Blue Ribbon Awards

Yamamoto won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director for Shōnin no isu and Nippon dorobō monogatari (both 1965).[9] Ivory Tower was awarded Best Film the following year.

Mainichi Fim Awards

Yamamoto was awarded Best Director at the Mainichi Film Awards for Ballad of the Cart and Ningen no kane (both 1959),[10] Ivory Tower,[11] Men and War[12] and Barren Land.[13] Ivory Tower, Barren Land and Nomugi Pass[14] were winners in the Best Film category.

Festival prizes

Ivory Tower was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it was awarded the Silver Prize.[15]

References

External links

• Satsuo Yamamoto at IMDb
• "Satsuo Yamamoto Special Program". Tokyo Filmex. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
• Kato, Mariko (31 January 2008). "SATSUO YAMAMOTO: Classic director remembered". The Japan Times. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
• "Satsuo Yamamoto, Director; Made Antiwar Films in Japan". The New York Times. 12 August 1983. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

Bibliography

• Yamamoto, Satsuo (2017). My life as a filmmaker. Chang, Chia-ning. Baltimore, Maryland: Project Muse. ISBN 9780472122493. OCLC 990075123.

На других языках

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- [en] Satsuo Yamamoto

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[ru] Ямамото, Сацуо

Сацуо Ямамото (яп. 山本薩夫 Ямамото Сацуо). (15 июля 1910, Кагосима, Япония — 11 августа 1983, Токио, Япония) — японский кинорежиссёр и сценарист. Общепризнанный социальный критик и полемист, длительное время связанный с японской компартией[1], считается ярким представителем так называемой «социалистической школы»[2]. Ямамото провёл предвоенные годы в прогрессивной, ориентированной на Запад студии PCL (впоследствии «Тохо»)[1]. В послевоенные годы был одним из зачинателей движения «независимых». С 1948 года был членом Коммунистической партии Японии[3]. В его фильмах зачастую изображена жестокость японской военщины до и во время Второй мировой войны. Он также обращался к теме послевоенной коррупции в японских корпорациях и больницах.

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