Yugo Sako (é…'å '雄豪, SakÅ YÅ«gÅ ) (4 February 1928 â€" 24 April
2012) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and producer, known
for his works like Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama.Yugo Sako, born
in Gifu, Japan on February 4, 1928, lost his parents in his very early
childhood, and seemingly predestined to enter the Buddhist priesthood.
He was then deeply steeped in the Indian philosophy and ideas as well
as in the Zen culture. He had worked with the NHK, Nippon Hoso Kyokai
(Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) for over ten years, than became a
freelance creator working on television programs, magazines and music.
After his first visit to India in 1970, he has become more fascinated
with her and paid her more than 40 visits, producing many documentary
films on India. It was a major turning point that he met Dr. B.B. Lal
in 1983, who was a noted archaeologist called the reincarnation of
Schliemann in India. Yugo Sako was then producing a television
documentary- for the Japanese alone with the permission of the
government of India- on Dr. Lal's excavation of "Ramayana Relics" in
Shringabelapur near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh in northern India.
Indian Express, one of the leading national dailies, in its edition of
April 25, 1983 carried an article on Sako's work. Soon thereafter, a
protest letter based on the misunderstanding from the late Mr. Har
Mohan Lall, the secretary general of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, an
International Hindu organization, was received by the Japanese Embassy
in Delhi, which said that no foreigners could arbitrarily cinematize
Ramayana because it was the great national heritage of India. After
Mr. Lall's misunderstanding was cleared, however, Sako proposed that
Ramayana be made into an animation film for all the people of the
earth. Mr. Lall agreed on his idea. Accordingly, the preparations
began in the mid-1980s for making Ramayana in animation, the first
attempt of its kind. With many difficulties to be surmounted, the
film, The Legend of Ramayana, took over a decade to complete. Yugo
Sako died on 24 April 2012 at the age of 84 due to aspiration
pneumonia in Minato, Tokyo. At the time of his death, he was working
on the story of Lord Krishna, the Celestial Cowherd.
2012) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and producer, known
for his works like Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama.Yugo Sako, born
in Gifu, Japan on February 4, 1928, lost his parents in his very early
childhood, and seemingly predestined to enter the Buddhist priesthood.
He was then deeply steeped in the Indian philosophy and ideas as well
as in the Zen culture. He had worked with the NHK, Nippon Hoso Kyokai
(Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) for over ten years, than became a
freelance creator working on television programs, magazines and music.
After his first visit to India in 1970, he has become more fascinated
with her and paid her more than 40 visits, producing many documentary
films on India. It was a major turning point that he met Dr. B.B. Lal
in 1983, who was a noted archaeologist called the reincarnation of
Schliemann in India. Yugo Sako was then producing a television
documentary- for the Japanese alone with the permission of the
government of India- on Dr. Lal's excavation of "Ramayana Relics" in
Shringabelapur near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh in northern India.
Indian Express, one of the leading national dailies, in its edition of
April 25, 1983 carried an article on Sako's work. Soon thereafter, a
protest letter based on the misunderstanding from the late Mr. Har
Mohan Lall, the secretary general of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, an
International Hindu organization, was received by the Japanese Embassy
in Delhi, which said that no foreigners could arbitrarily cinematize
Ramayana because it was the great national heritage of India. After
Mr. Lall's misunderstanding was cleared, however, Sako proposed that
Ramayana be made into an animation film for all the people of the
earth. Mr. Lall agreed on his idea. Accordingly, the preparations
began in the mid-1980s for making Ramayana in animation, the first
attempt of its kind. With many difficulties to be surmounted, the
film, The Legend of Ramayana, took over a decade to complete. Yugo
Sako died on 24 April 2012 at the age of 84 due to aspiration
pneumonia in Minato, Tokyo. At the time of his death, he was working
on the story of Lord Krishna, the Celestial Cowherd.
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