Kōsaku Yamashita Explained
Kōsaku Yamashita |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1930 |
Birth Place: | Kagoshima Prefecture,[1] Japan |
Death Date: | 6 December 1998 |
Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Other Names: | Shōgun |
Occupation: | Film director |
Yearsactive: | 1955-1998 |
was a Japanese film director who specialized in directing Yakuza films.[2] Yamashita was nicknamed Shōgun.[3] [4] His son is director Tomohiko Yamashita.[5]
In 1952, He graduated from Kyoto University and joined Toei Film. He was working an office job, but three years later,[6] he became an assistant director under Tomu Uchida and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.[7]
Yamashita made his directorial debut with Wakatono Senryu Hada in 1961.[7] His representative works included The Valiant Red Peony series and Kyōdai Jingi (1966).[6]
Selected filmography
Film
- Wakatono Senryu Hada (1961)
- Kyōdai Jingi (1966)
- The Vanity of the Shogun's Mistresses (1968)
- The Valiant Red Peony aka Hibotan Bakuto (1968)
- Zoro Me no San Kyōdai (1972)
- Yamaguchi-gumi Sandaime (1973)
- Yokosuka Naval Prison (1973)
- Yamaguchi-gumi gaiden: Kyushu Shinko-sakusen aka The Tattooed Hit Man
- Father of the Kamikaze (1974)
- Story of All-Out Attack or Path of Japanese Chivalry (1975)
- Jail Breakers aka Datsō Yugi (1976)
- Gōtō Satsujin Shu (1976)
- Tokugawa Ichizoku no Hōukai (1980)
- Shura no Mure (1984)
- The Last True Yakuza aka Saigo no Bakuto (1985)
- Night Train (1987)
- The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma (1987)
- Another Way (1988)
- Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle (1990)
- Shin Gokudō no Tsumatachi Kakugoshiiya (1993)
Television
Further reading
- Shōgun to Yobareta Otoko Eiga Kantoku Yamashita Kōsaku 将軍と呼ばれた男―映画監督山下耕作 (ワイズ出版 1999)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 山下耕作. The TV. ja. 13 December 2021.
- Web site: Kōsaku Yamashita profile. Goo. ja. 13 December 2021.
- Web site: Kōsaku Yamashita profile. 映画ナタリー. ja. 13 December 2021.
- Web site: 山下耕作の世界 by Sadao Nakajima . ラピュタ. ja. 13 December 2021.
- Web site: Tomohiko Yamashita. 株式会社京都組. 13 December 2021.
- Web site: Kōsaku Yamashita Profile. 映画DB. 8 December 2021.
- Web site: 20世紀日本人名事典「山下 耕作」の解説. Kotobank. 13 December 2021.