Yasutaro Yagi Movies

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinji Fujiwa

Venice Film Festival 1939

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

Drama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shingo Endô

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hatae Kishi

Drama about the lives of seasonal migrant workers in Kashima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hajime Izu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the...

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Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Yamamoto

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They...

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Cast: Setsuko Hara

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Japanese film.

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Cast: Yatarō Kitagami

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

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Cast: Tanie Kitabayashi

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisako Takihana

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Yamamoto

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

Genre: War

Cast: Akitake Kōno

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Minoru Takada

A film based on the memoir of a 4th grade student who received the grand prize in a writing contest sponsored by Gyeongseong Daily. A boy, whose...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Susukida

Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

Genre: History

Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of...

Genre: War

Cast: Susumu Fujita

1948 Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno