My life as a filmmaker /

In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director in a well-established film company under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging experiences as a filmmaker, including his particip...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yamamoto, Satsuo, 1910-1983
Other Authors: Chang, Chia-ning
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Series:Michigan monograph series in japanese studies ;
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Translator's preface
  • Chronology
  • Filmography, awards, and recognitions
  • Introduction : Yamamoto Satsuo and modern Japanese cinema
  • My life as a filmmaker (Watakushi no eiga jinsei)
  • Preface
  • My boyhood
  • My student years
  • My years as an assistant director
  • Before conscription
  • Private Second Class Yamamoto
  • The T oh o labor strikes
  • Independent filmmaking and its struggles
  • Work within the mainstream industry
  • In place of an afterword.