After the bankruptcy, Yamamoto went to write screenplays for Space Battle Yamato TV anime and films, as well as co-direct Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight anime film and the Space Battleship Yamato III TV anime in 1980.
During a screening of the Belladonna of Sadness anime film in Tokyo yesterday, the organizers announced that the director of the film Eiichi Yamamoto had passed away on September 7 due to heart failure.
Yamamoto went on to direct the cult-classic Belladonna of Sadness at MushiPro as his last anime film for the studio before it went bankrupt.