FILM DIRECTOR

Kihachi Okamoto

1924 - 2005

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Kihachi Okamoto (岡本 喜八, Okamoto Kihachi, February 17, 1924 – February 19, 2005) was a Japanese film director who worked in several different genres. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kihachi Okamoto has received more than 99,914 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kihachi Okamoto is the 1,056th most popular film director (down from 923rd in 2019), the 1,263rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,112th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kihachi Okamoto ranks 1,056 out of 2,041. Before him are Eduardo Serra, Ted Wilde, Richard Dembo, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Zalman King, and John Seale. After him are Richard Williams, Safi Faye, Cameron Crowe, Nina Companeez, Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Frank Beyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Kihachi Okamoto ranks 341. Before him are Boris Vasilyev, Carlos Humberto Romero, Lucy Salani, Antonio Creus, Natalia Bekhtereva, and Masha Bruskina. After him are Chikage Awashima, Rossana Rossanda, Siiri Rantanen, Branko Kralj, Friedrich L. Bauer, and Arthur Harnden. Among people deceased in 2005, Kihachi Okamoto ranks 249. Before him are Isabella Bashmakova, Richard Burns, Thadée Cisowski, Miriam Rothschild, Jaime Sin, and Robin Cook. After him are Jean Cayrol, Elisabeth Domitien, John Fiedler, Joe Ranft, Annemarie Heinrich, and Lucien Carr.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kihachi Okamoto ranks 1,263 out of 6,245. Before him are Kazuyoshi Hoshino (1947), Makoto Hasebe (1984), Gackt (1973), Rinko Kikuchi (1981), Hiroshi Fushida (1946), and Yu Suzuki (1958). After him are Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1931), Kotono Mitsuishi (1967), Chikage Awashima (1924), Junichi Suwabe (1972), Satoshi Furukawa (1964), and Osamu Watanabe (1940).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Kihachi Okamoto ranks 47. Before him are Masato Harada (1949), Yoshishige Yoshida (1933), Hideo Nakata (1961), Masaaki Yuasa (1965), Shinya Tsukamoto (1960), and Kei Kumai (1930). After him are Naomi Kawase (1969), Shunji Iwai (1963), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), Yōjirō Takita (1955), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978), and Hiromasa Yonebayashi (1973).

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Filmography

The Sword of Doom
Director
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.
Feb 25th 19667.704 / 10
Floating Clouds
Director
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Jan 15th 19557.7 / 10
Kill!
Director
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Jun 22nd 19687 / 10