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Yasutaro Yagi

Known For
Writing

Known Credits
2

Gender
Male

Birthday
February 3, 1903 (123 years old)

Place of Birth
Gunma, Japan

Yasutaro Yagi

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.

Known For

Writing

1976遺書 白い少女...Writer
1969River Without a Bridge...Screenplay
1968Monument to the Girl's Corps...Screenplay
1965Blood and Sea...Screenplay
1964Gazing at Love and Death...Screenplay
1964A Story from Echigo...Screenplay
1963Kanto Wanderer...Screenplay
1962Farm Girls...Screenplay
1962Farm Girls...Story
1961Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab...Screenplay
1959The Human Wall...Screenplay
1959Kashima-nada no onna...Screenplay
1959Lucky Dragon No. 5...Screenplay
1957Ujō...Screenplay
1957Rice...Screenplay
1957Streetlights...Screenplay
1956Song of the Underworld...Screenplay
1955Osanaki mono wa uttaeru...Writer
1955A Hole of My Own Making...Screenplay
1955Blood Festival of Akagi...Screenplay
1955Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri...Writer
1954The Last Women...Screenplay
1954The End of a Day...Screenplay
1953Hiroshima...Writer
1953At the End of the Clouds...Screenplay
1953The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki...Screenplay
1953Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu...Screenplay
1952Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu...Screenplay
1952Toki no teizo: Sōshūban...Screenplay
1952The Yamabiko School...Screenplay
1952August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan...Writer
1950The Rainbow-Colored Flower...Screenplay
1950Town of Violence...Screenplay
1950Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka...Writer
1949Utako's Story...Screenplay
1948Platform at Night...Screenplay
1948A Second Life...Writer
1947Invitation to Happiness...Writer
1947Invitation to Happiness...Story
1943Suicide Troops of the Watchtower...Screenplay
1941A Diary of Our Love...Screenplay
1940Ōhinata-mura...Writer
1940Spring on Leper's Island...Screenplay
1940Okumura Ioka...Screenplay
1940The Burning Sky...Screenplay
1940Tuition...Adaptation
1939Earth...Screenplay
1938Children of the Sun...Screenplay
1937Unending Advance...Writer
1936The Crown of Life...Writer
1936Theater of Life: Youth Version...Screenplay
1930Behold This Mother...Screenplay

Production

1954The End of a Day...Executive Producer

Directing

1950Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom...Script Supervisor
1950Les Miserables I: God and the Devil...Script Supervisor
1950Listen to the Voices of the Sea...Script Supervisor

Acting

1938King Kong Appears in Edo: The Episode of Goldas Inoue Ginbei
1938The King Kong That Appeared in Edoas Inoue Ginbei