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 prowar 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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