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Book SynopsisIn his posthumous autobiography,
Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging experiences as a filmmaker, including his struggles as an independent filmmaker in the 1950s and 1960s before returning to work within the mainstream industry.
Trade ReviewChang’s translation of the filmmaker’s autobiography,
My Life as a Filmmaker, is masterfully done. Chang has a strong reputation in the field for introducing many important Japanese literary, cultural, and historical works to the English-language world. This will be another important, though less well-known, work to give us not only a better appreciation of one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers but also a deeper understanding of postwar Japanese film and cultural history."" - Poshek Fu, University of Illinois
""A magnificent memoir magnificently told. Film world: Stand up and take notice!"" - Roger Pulvers
