Atsushi 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).

Atsushi Yamatoya
Born(1937-06-19)19 June 1937
Hokkaido, Mikasa, Japan
Died16 January 1993(1993-01-16) (aged 55)
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter, actor, singer, writer
Years active1965-1992
ChildrenAkatsuki Yamatoya

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

As screenwriter
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References
  1. Rayns, Tony (13 December 2011). "Branded to Kill: Reductio Ad Absurdum". Criterion.
  2. Croce, Fernando F. (2 January 2012). "Branded to Kill – DVD Review". Slant Magazine.
  3. Mes, Tom (22 August 2008). "Midnight Eye feature: Behind the Pink Curtain". Midnight Eye.
  4. Domenig, Roland (28 June 2004). "Midnight Eye feature: The Anticipation of Freedom: Art Theatre Guild and Japanese Independent Cinema". Midnight Eye.

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