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

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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