Awards & Winners

Satsuo Yamamoto

Date of Birth 15-July-1910
Place of Birth Kagoshima Prefecture
(Japan, Kyushu)
Nationality Japan
Also know as 山本 薩夫, Yamamoto Satsuo, やまもと さつお
Profession Film director
Satsuo Yamamoto 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, and after the war he rallied against the company as a driving force behind the union during the 1948 Toho labour dispute, 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.

Awards by Satsuo Yamamoto

Check all the awards nominated and won by Satsuo Yamamoto.

1980


Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year Oh! The Nomugi Pass
Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year Oh! The Nomugi Pass

1979


Mainichi Eiga Concours Award for Best Film
Honored for : Oh! The Nomugi Pass

1976


Mainichi Eiga Concours Award for Best Film
Honored for : Fum? Chitai

1966


Mainichi Eiga Concours Award for Best Film
Honored for : The Great White Tower