Yamamoto Satsuo
Still: The Great White TowerJapanese film director YAMAMOTO Satsuo (1910–1983, Japan) joined the Shochiku film studios in 1933 where he was an assistant director to Naruse Mikio after studying at the Waseda University. During the Second World War he directed left-wing propaganda films before getting sent to China. Back in Japan, his films carried strong anti-military ideas and he turned towards independent filmmaking. Only in the 1960s did he go back to working for film companies like Daiei and Nikkatsu and created films like Band of Assassins (1962), The Great White Tower (1966) and Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967).
Filmography
(selection) Ojosan (1937), Konna Onnani Daregashita (1949), Boryoku no Machi/Street of Violence (1950), Hakone Fūunroku (1952), Shinkūchitai/Vacuum Zone (1952), Hi no Hate (1954), Taiyō no nai Machi (1954), Taifu Sodoki (1956), Niguruma no Uta/Ballad of the Cart (1959), Ningen no Kabe (1961), Matsukawa Jiken (1961), Shinobi no Mono (1962), Zoku Shinobi no Mono (1963), Nippon Dorobō Monogatari (1965), Shiroi Kyotô/The Great White Tower (1966), Senso to Ningen/Men and War (1970-1973), Karei-naru Ichizoku (1974), Kinkanshoku (1975), Barren Land (1976), Kōtei no Inai Hachigatsu (1978), Ah Nomugi Toge/Nomugi Pass (1979), Ah Nomugi Toge Shinrokuhen/Nomugi Pass Shinryokuhen (1982)
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