Atsushi Yamatoya
Atsushi Yamatoya | |
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| Born | 19 June 1937 |
| Died | 16 January 1993 (aged 55) |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, actor, singer, writer |
| Years active | 1965-1992 |
| Children | Akatsuki Yamatoya |
Atsushi Yamatoya (大和屋 竺, Yamatoya Atsushi) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. His son is a screenwriter and race horse owner Akatsuki Yamatoya (大和屋 暁, Yamatoya Akatsuki).
Life and career
Atsushi Yamatoya was best known as the screenwriter for Seijun Suzuki's 1967 film Branded to Kill,[1] which is "a stark, spastically existential—and, most affronting of all, defiantly unmarketable—crime-flick abstraction that unfolds like the director's cracked self-portrait."[2]
Jasper Sharp, author of Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema, said, "Yamatoya is definitely very interesting."[3] According to Roland Domenig, Yamatoya used his pink films for "formal experiments," while other directors such as Koji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi used their pink films as "political propaganda."[4]
Yamatoya died of esophageal cancer on 16 January 1993. In that same year, he was posthumously awarded on the 2nd Japan Film Professional Awards.
Filmography
As director
- Season of Betrayal (1966)
- Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967)
- The Pistol That Sprouted Hair (1968)
- Trapped in Lust (Aiyoku no wana) (1973)
As screenwriter
- Branded to Kill (1967)
- Blue Film: Estimation (1968)
- Gewalt Gewalt (1969)
- Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970)
- Secret Hot Spring Resort: Starfish at Night (1970)
- Wet Sand in August (1971)
- Scent of Eros in August (1972)
- Naked Seven (1972)
- Sweet Scent of Eros (1973)
- Bankaku Rock (1973)
- Barefoot in Blue Jeans (1975)
- Banned Book: Flesh Futon (1975)
- A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977)
- Mystery of Mamo (1978)
- Locke the Superman (1984)
- Capone Cries a Lot (1985)
- Legend of the Gold of Babylon (1985)
- Toki no Tabibito: Time Stranger (1986)
- Dogra Magra (1988)
References
- ^ Rayns, Tony (13 December 2011). "Branded to Kill: Reductio Ad Absurdum". Criterion.
- ^ Croce, Fernando F. (2 January 2012). "Branded to Kill – DVD Review". Slant Magazine.
- ^ Mes, Tom (22 August 2008). "Midnight Eye feature: Behind the Pink Curtain". Midnight Eye.
- ^ Domenig, Roland (28 June 2004). "Midnight Eye feature: The Anticipation of Freedom: Art Theatre Guild and Japanese Independent Cinema". Midnight Eye.
External links
- Atsushi Yamatoya at IMDb
- Atsushi Yamatoya at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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