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In 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.

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Chang’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

My Life as a Filmmaker

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    A Hardback by Satsuo Yamamoto, Chia-ning Chang

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      Publisher The University of Michigan Press
      Published 1/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780472073337
      978-0472073337
      ISBN-10 0472073338
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In 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 Review
      Chang’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

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