Yasutaro Yagi

Yasutaro Yagi

  • Birthday: 1903-02-03
  • Deathday: 1987-09-08
  • Place of birth: Gunma Prefecture, Japan
  • Also know as: 八木保太郎

Biography

Yasutarō Yagi (3 February 1903 – 8 September 1987) was a Japanese screenwriter, mostly famous for his adaptations of literary works for the director Tomu Uchida in the 1930s, such as Jinsei gekijō and Kagirinaki zenshin, and for his collaborations with leftist filmmakers such as Kaneto Shindo and Tadashi Imai in the postwar period. He served as president of the Japan Screenwriters Guild. Wikipedia contributors. "Yasutarō Yagi." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 24 Jan. 2021. Web. 3 Nov. 2021.

Filmography

Production

Lucky Dragon No. 5

1959

As Writer

Rice

1957

As Writer

A Hole of My Own Making

1955

As Screenplay

The Rainbow-Colored Flower

1950

As Screenplay

Blood Festival of Akagi

1955

As Screenplay

The Yamabiko School

1952

As Screenplay

The Human Wall

1959

As Screenplay

Street of Violence

1950

As Screenplay

Behold This Mother

1930

As Screenplay

A Story from Echigo

1964

As Screenplay

Hiroshima

1953

As Writer

Chibusa o daku musume tachi

1962

As Screenplay

The End of a Day

1954

As Executive Producer

The End of a Day

1954

As Screenplay

Tuition

1940

As Screenplay

Unending Advance

1937

As Writer

Earth

1939

As Screenplay

Song of the Underworld

1956

As Screenplay

Kanto Wanderer

1963

As Screenplay

Spring on Leper's Island

1940

As Screenplay

The Burning Sky

1940

As Screenplay

A Second Life

1948

As Writer

Ōhinata-mura

1940

As Writer

Okumura Ioka

1940

As Screenplay

Children of the Sun

1938

As Screenplay

At the End of the Clouds

1953

As Screenplay

A Diary of Our Love

1941

As Screenplay

Streetlights

1957

As Screenplay

The Crown of Life

1936

As Writer

River Without a Bridge

1969

As Screenplay

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

1952

As Screenplay

The Last Women

1954

As Screenplay

Blood and Sea

1965

As Screenplay

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

1953

As Screenplay

Konna onna ni dare ga shita

1949

As Screenplay

Kashima-nada no onna

1959

As Screenplay

Listen to the Voices of the Sea

1950

As Script Supervisor

悲劇の将軍 山下奉文

1953

As Screenplay

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

1950

As Script Supervisor

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