Yasutaro Yagi
- Writing
- February 3, 1903 · Gunma, Japan
- September 8, 1987
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
Filmography
- Isho: Shiroi shōjo · Writer
- River Without a Bridge · Screenplay
- Monument to the Girl's Corps · Screenplay
- Blood and Sea · Screenplay
- Gazing at Love and Death · Screenplay
- A Story from Echigo · Screenplay
- Kanto Wanderer · Screenplay
- Farm Girls · Story, Screenplay
- Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab · Screenplay
- The Human Wall · Screenplay
- Kashima-nada no onna · Screenplay
- Lucky Dragon No. 5 · Screenplay
- Ujō · Screenplay
- Rice · Screenplay
- Streetlights · Screenplay
- Song of the Underworld · Screenplay
- Osanaki mono wa uttaeru · Writer
- A Hole of My Own Making · Screenplay
- Blood Festival of Akagi · Screenplay
- Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri · Writer
- The Last Women · Screenplay
- The End of a Day · Executive producer, Screenplay
- Hiroshima · Writer
- At the End of the Clouds · Screenplay
- The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki · Screenplay
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu · Screenplay
- Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu · Screenplay
- Toki no teizo: Sōshūban · Screenplay
- The Yamabiko School · Screenplay
- August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan · Writer
- Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom · Script Supervisor
- Les Miserables I: God and the Devil · Script Supervisor
- The Rainbow-Colored Flower · Screenplay
- Listen to the Voices of the Sea · Script Supervisor
- Town of Violence · Screenplay
- Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka · Writer
- Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya · Screenplay
- Utako's Story · Screenplay
- Wagakoyue ni · Screenplay
- Platform at Night · Screenplay
- A Second Life · Writer
- Invitation to Happiness · Writer, Story
- Suicide Troops of the Watchtower · Screenplay
- A Diary of Our Love · Screenplay
- Ōhinata-mura · Writer
- Spring on Leper's Island · Screenplay
- Okumura Ioka · Screenplay
- The Burning Sky · Screenplay
- Tuition · Adaptation
- Earth · Screenplay
- Children of the Sun · Screenplay
- King Kong Appears in Edo: The Episode of Gold · Inoue Ginbei
- The King Kong That Appeared in Edo · Inoue Ginbei
- Unending Advance · Writer
- The Crown of Life · Writer
- Theater of Life: Youth Version · Screenplay
- Behold This Mother · Screenplay