Kihachi Okamoto

Kihachi Okamoto (Kihachi Okamoto, 1924 February 17 - 2005 February 19) was a Japanese film director.

## Life

* The actors and staff are highly enthusiastic, and they were called "Kihachan" by seniors and colleagues. Toshirou Mifune said that Okamoto lived in the same apartment since his assistant director's time and was close to him, and in "All About Marriage" he agreed to appear in celebration of Okamoto's promotion. Since then, he has reunited with the director as a leading actor, and after the establishment of Mifune Pro, he was the only director invited to the film three times. Not in). On the contrary, Kihachi Pro provided a set of Mifune Pro for the low-budget historical drama "Hakuin" to reward friendship. After all, Tatsuya Nakadai became a regular customer after a while after suddenly appearing in the last scene of "All about Marriage" and surprised the audience. Often he has a blurry character on the front. In my private life, I am a golf companion. Moreover, when Nobuhiko Obayashi decided to make a commercial film debut in the Toho movie " HOUSE ", there was a strong reaction from the studio to Obayashi, who had no experience as an assistant director, but those people said, "We should learn a new wind. It was Okamoto who persuaded him to learn. Obayashi listened to this very much later in the year and was very grateful to him, but he was completely uncompromising about his work.
* Kihachi OkamotoTomoyuki Tanaka , a producer who formed a combination for many years , on the other hand, is famous as a parent of Toho special effects movies, but Okamoto had professed to dislike special effects, so he did not give him such a plan. The only exception is the special technical staff such as Akiyoshi Nakano, the special effects director who worked on Toho special effects works including the " Godzilla " series in "Turn Up Showa History Okinawa Battle" . In addition, Sakyo Komatsu "of Japan Apaches sometimes" has reached up to the last shooting at the Crazy Cats starring.[1]Kihachi Okamoto[2]Kihachi Okamoto[3]Kihachi Okamoto
* Also, the long-standing combination with composer Masaru Sato was one of the best collaborations in Japanese movies in terms of quality and quantity.
* In addition to essays and storyboards, he has written novels such as "Sweet Homes Detective" and "Toppin Republic Independence Day". It has the pen name of Daisaku Ikuta as the original work of "Suketachiya Sukeroku", which is derived from the address of Okamoto in Kawasaki city.
* Known for Western enthusiasts, together with Choji Yodogawa and Eiichi Tanaka, they chose the 25 best Western plays, and John Ford's “ coach ”, “ Duel in the Wilds, ” “ Yellow Ribbon, ” “ Searchers, ” and Howard Hawks, “ Red River ”. " Rio Bravo ", William Weiller " Western Man " " Great West ", Fred Zinnemann " Midday Duel ", John Sturgess " Tombstones and Duel ", Sam Pekinper " Wild Bunch " etc.  .

### Family/Relatives

#### Okamoto family

* [4]Yokkaichi Town , Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, Tama Ward, Kawasaki City , Kanagawa Prefecture [5]Kihachi Okamoto[6][7][8]
	+ The filmmaker's wife, Ms. Mineko Okamoto, was interviewed by Okamoto, who was still a newcomer when she was a member of Waseda University, but later came to a marriage after accidentally reuniting at a department store where she worked part-time. It was He also co-starred in the CM. He assisted Kihachi implicitly in both home and work. Especially his wife's contributions to the three ATG movies and The Great Kidnapping are immeasurable. Okamoto sought to collect funds, such as mortgaging his house for a movie "I want to shoot it even on the fusuma of my home ", as well as collecting time deposits from acquaintances and borrowing this from a bank for mortgage ..
	+ The care life of his later years was aired on May 18, 2007 under the title of NHK documentary "The time when God gave me-Kihachi Okamoto and his wife, 300 days from the announcement of his cancer ." The replay drama was performed by Hirotaro Honda ( who made his debut in the song "Eirei Cheers") and Mrs. Mineko Naoko Otani (who made his debut in "Nikutan"), and actors closely related to Okamoto.
	+ Kihachi OkamotoOkamoto Mami who played Princess Matsueda of "Jazz Daimyo" is a daughter. In " Great Kidnapping, " he plays a rural girl friend who is close to one of the kidnapping teams , and also appears in "Suketachiya Sukeroku" ( 2002 ) as a female villain.

## Films

* + - All about marriage (1958)
		- Young girls (1958)
		- Face of the Underworld (1959)
		- One day I (1959)
		- Independence Foolish Party (1959)
		- Underworld Confrontation (1960)
		- College bandits (1960)
		- To the Independence Regiment west (1960)
		- Bullet holes in the underworld (1961)
		- Die in the face role (1961)
		- Feast of Hell (1961)
		- Operation Dobu Mouse (1962)
		- Monthly thief (1962)
		- Samurai (1963)
		- The elegant life of Mr. Riman Ebun (1963)
		- Ah bomb (1964)
		- Samurai (1965)
		- Blood and sand (1965)
		- Daibosatsu Pass (1966)
		- The murderer era (1967)
		- Japan's longest day (1967)
		- Slash (1968)
		- Manual Bullet (1968)
		- Redhead (1969)
		- Zatoichi and the bouncer (1970)
		- Turbulent Showa History Okinawa Battle (1971)
		- Japan Three Musketeers Farewell Tokyo Volume (1972)
		- Japan three Musketeers Hakata obi Shime one Dokko volume (1973)
		- Prosper Aoba (1974)
		- 吶喊 (1975)
		- Sanshiro Sugata (1977)
		- Dynamite Don Don (1978)
		- Blue Christmas (1978)
		- Cheering songs of the spirits The last race of Waseda (1979)
		- For some reason Charleston (1981)
		- Jazz daimyo (1986)
		- Large kidnapping KIDS RAINBOW (1991 years) ※ The 4th Yujiro Ishihara Award Winner
		- EAST MEETS WEST (1995)
		- Suketachiya Sukeroku (2002)

### Other video works

* End of the Ginrei ( 1947 August 5 public, Senkichi Taniguchi Director, Toho) - third assistant director
* Jiro Cho Sangokushi 1st part Jiro Cho sells ( released on December 4, 1952, directed by Masahiro Makino , Toho ) -Assistant Director (Kihachiro Okamoto)
* Jiro Cho Sangokushi Part 2 Jiro Cho First Trip ( Released on January 9, 1953, Director Masahiro Makino, Toho)-Assistant Director (Kihachiro Okamoto)
* Jirocho Sangokushi Part 3 Jirocho and Ishimatsu (Released on June 3, 1953, Director Masahiro Makino, Toho)-Director Assistant (Kihachiro Okamoto)
* Jiro Chocho Sangokushi Part 4 Shimizu Port Shimizu Port (Released on June 23, 1953, Director Masahiro Makino, Toho)-Assistant Director (Kihachiro Okamoto)
* Happiness's (1953 September 1, public, Yasuki Chiba Director, Toho) - assistant director
* Ukigumo ( 1955 January 15, the public, Mikio Naruse Director, Toho) - Director assistant
* Half Human (1955 July 26, the public, Ishirō Honda Director, Toho) - Director assistant
* Rangiku story ( released January 22, 1956, directed by Chikichi Taniguchi, Toho)-Director Assistant[9]Kihachi Okamoto
* Barefoot Youth (Published October 26, 1956, Director Chikichi Taniguchi, Toho)-Director Assistant (Kihachiro Okamoto)
* President's third generation ( released January 3, 1958, director Sobayashi Munebayashi , Toho) -assistant director[10]Kihachi Okamoto[11]Kihachi Okamoto
* Pull out the nine-chan sword ( released August 31, 1963, directed by Masahiro Makino, Toei )-Screenplay (name of castle climbing)[12]Kihachi Okamoto[13]Kihachi Okamoto
* 100 out of 100 ( released December 5, 1965, directed by Jun Fukuda , Toho)-Screenplay[14]Kihachi Okamoto[15]Kihachi Okamoto
* Gatchaman ( 1978 July 15, the public, Hisayuki Toriumi supervision, Shochiku - Fuji film ) - total command
* Coo far came from the sea Koo ( 1993 December 11, the public, Tetsuo Imazawa Director, Toei) - Screenplay