Tadao Sato
{{Short description|Japanese film critic (1930–2022)}}
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| occupation = Film critic
| employer = Japanese National Railways
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
Japan Institute of the Moving Image
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{{nihongo|Tadao Satō|佐藤 忠男|Satō Tadao|lead=yes|6 October 1930 – 17 March 2022}} was a Japanese film critic, theorist and historian. His real name was {{nihongo|Tadao Iiri|飯利 忠男|Iiri Tadao}}.
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Born in Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, He published more than a hundred books on film, and was one of Japan's foremost scholars and historians addressing film. He was recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on Japanese cinema specifically, although little of his work had been translated for publication abroad.Sato, Tadao (trans. Gregory Barret). Currents In Japanese Cinema, Tokyo: Kodansha. 1982. {{ISBN|0-87011-815-3}}. He also wrote books on Chinese,{{cite book|title=Chūgoku-eiga no 100-nen|trans-title=100 Years of Chinese Cinema|last=Satō|first=Tadao}} Korean,{{cite book|title=Kankoku-eiga no Seishin: Im Kwon-taek to sono Jidai|trans-title=The Psyche of Korean Cinema: Im Kwon-taek and his Era|last=Satō|first=Tadao|date=24 February 2000|publisher=岩波書店 |isbn=4000028421}} American{{cite book|title=Amerika-eiga|trans-title=American Cinema|last=Satō|first=Tadao|year=1971|publisher=第三文明社 |isbn=4476031315}} and European{{cite book|title=Yōroppa-eiga|trans-title=European Cinema|last=Satō|first=Tadao|year=1992|publisher=第三文明社 |isbn=4476031730}} films.
The international awareness of Sato's scholarship can be attributed to a collection of selected essays, Currents In Japanese Cinema, published internationally in English translation in 1982. His Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema was published in Japanese in 1982 and translated in 2008.Sato, Tadao, (trans. Brij Tankha) Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese cinema, Oxford; New York, NY : Berg, 2008. {{ISBN|1-84788-230-7}}. Sato has also frequently appeared as a primary source in the writing of other Japanese film historians, notably Donald RichieRichie, Donald. A Hundred Years Of Japanese Cinema, pp. 27, 29, 72, 80-81, 125, Tokyo: Kodansha. 2001. {{ISBN|4-7700-2995-0}}. and Joan Mellen.Mellen, Joan. The Waves At Genji's Door, pp. 304, New York: Pantheon. 1975. {{ISBN|0-394-49799-6}}.
He was the president of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.
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Tadao Sato's reflections on the Golden Age of cinema can be found in English translation in Abigail Deveney's scholarly paper: [https://gensoken.toyo.ac.jp/japanese-society-and-culture/vol3/iss1/2/#:~:text=In%20fact,%20director%20Ozu%E2%80%99s%20shomingeki-genre%20film%20was%20being%20discussed%20and Influential Storytelling at its Finest: Why the Postwar West Took Notice of Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story]
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Category:People from Niigata (city)
Category:Japanese film critics
Category:Recipients of the Legion of Honour