Yasutaro Yagi Movies

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

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

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...

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...

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

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

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...

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

Venice Film Festival 1939

A lost film considered one of Japan's first Tokusatsu films. The effects were done by Fuminori Ohashi, who claims to have been a modeling consultant...

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

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.

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

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

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