MATAICHIRO YAMAMOTO - PRODUCER Born in Kagoshima Prefecture, 1947. Mataichiro Yamamoto passed from being a TV movie producer to, in 1972, participation in independent movie production. In 1977, he crossed overseas to France alone, and supervised the production of The Rose of Versailles (Lady Oscar) with director Jacques Demy and composer Michael Legrand, which met with great success. Chosen in 1980 for an arts program between the Japanese Foreign Film Distribution Association and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation to study American filmmaking, he began developing the feature film Mishima, and produced the movie American Violence (Killing of America). Returning to Japan in 1983, Yamamoto produced a number of film and television series. In 1984, he completed Mishima: A life in Four Chapters for Fox. Jointly produced with Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the film received the “Special Award for Artistic Achievement” at the Cannes Film Festival. back | next