Eiichi Yamamoto
Known for Directing
Born
November 22, 1940
Died
September 7, 2021 (age 80)
Birthplace
Kyoto, Japan
Filmography
32 films, 7 shows
Known for Directing
Eiichi Yamamoto (山本 暎一, Yamamoto Eiichi, 22 November 1940 – 7 September 2021) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter of anime. He is known for directing the Animerama film series conceived by Osamu Tezuka. Yamamoto directed ten films between 1962 and 1986. His 1973 film Kanashimi no Belladonna was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. Besides film work, Yamamoto also served as screenwriter on the anime television series Space Battleship Yamato and wrote the screenplay for its 1977 film adaptation.
Born
November 22, 1940
Died
September 7, 2021 (age 80)
Birthplace
Kyoto, Japan
Filmography
32 films, 7 shows

One Arm
2019 · 31m
country: Japan
A woman lends an admirer her arm for the course of one night for him to find pleasure with it... An eerie erotic short story by Nobel Prize laureat Kawabata Yasunari is turned into minimalist animation of dazzling beauty indebted to Alfons Maria Mucha. A true gem created by two anime giants.

Tokai no Butchy
1995 · 13m
country: Japan
Short anime made by Tezuka Productions.

By the Time the Moon Rises
1991 · 45m
country: Japan
A father and daughter in Japan climb to the top of a ridge to watch the moonrise. As they wail, an old man tells them his story. An adaptation of Tetsuya Takeda's story about the relationship between a Japanese child and an American soldier.

Little Wansa
1989 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a husky puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much time looking for his mother. During his adventures on the street he meets friends, enemies and his beloved girlfriend. This OVA reunites the complete series aired on TV.

Pelican Road Club Culture
1986 · 55m
country: Japan
Kenichi Watanabe, a high school student nuts about his MBX50. He and his friends set up a bike club called Culture, and this story chronicles their adventures on the journey towards adult life.

Odin: Starlight Mutiny
1985 · 2h 19m
country: Japan
Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a young woman named Sara Cyanbaker. Unknown to the crew at this time, a mechanized space fleet approaches Earth and a scout vessel from that fleet was responsible for the destruction of Sara's ship.

Oshin
1984 · 2h 3m
country: Japan
Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting another child, barely have enough to eat. In order to make ends meet for her family, 7-year-old Oshin gives up school and decides to become a servant in the household of a wealthy family, where she faces trials and tribulation beyond her worst fears.

Belladonna of Sadness
1973 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.

Cleopatra: Queen of Sex
1970 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, become their closest friends as they try to unravel the nature of the plan developed in their own time by a sinister enemy.

A Thousand and One Nights
1969 · 2h 8m
country: Japan
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.

Till a City Beneath the Sea is Built
1969 · 45m
country: Japan
A realistic drama about the life of a young man as he strives to achieve his dream of building an "undersea city", which he considers his life's work. Produced for the Nippon Television program "20th Century Hour."

Jungle Emperor
1966 · 1h 14m
country: Japan
The story of a white lion cub growing to become the king of the jungle.

Astro Boy: The Brave In Space
1964 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Compilation of Episodes 1,2 46, 56 and 71 from the 1963 Astro Boy series that were reproduced in color for this theater version.
MALE
MALE
1962 · 3m
country: Japan
A man is sitting in a dark room, looking anxious, while his tomcat explains the man why he needs some privacy.

Tales of a Street Corner
1962 · 39m
country: Japan
The sad and happy times of a young girl and her bear doll, a young mouse and his family, a sycamore tree, an old lamp post, a hoodlum moth and an alleyway full of posters coming to life.