Kihachi Okamoto (岡本 喜 八 Okamoto Kihachi, Yonago, February 17, 1923 - Kawasaki, February 19, 2005) was a Japanese film director who worked in different genres.
Okamoto was born in Yonago (Tottori Prefecture). His male generals were largely a military in World War II. Okamoto was called for military service in 1943, but was on military training when Japan capitulated. The war largely determined its vision of conflicts between people. After the war he studied at Meiji University and became educated as director. He debuted in 1958 as a film director at Toho, where he made anti-war films as well as cynical yakuza films.
His masterpiece is Samurai Assassin (the Japanese title is simply Samurai), about a group of nineteenth-century political agitators who plan to kill a major government official. Toshiro Mifune plays the lead role. Other key films of Okamoto are Sword of Doom, and the anti-war movie Human Bullet about a soldier who robbed a human bomb in the ocean without knowing that the war has already ended.
Okamoto died at the age of 81 in his home of esophageal cancer. Externe link
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