Yasutaro Yagi

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-02-03 (84 years old)

Deathday

1987-09-08

Place of Birth

Gunma Prefecture, 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.

Production

1940

Okumura Ioka

as Screenplay

1940

Ōhinata-mura

as Writer

1938

Children of the Sun

as Screenplay

1953

1965

Blood and Sea

as Screenplay

1941

A Diary of Our Love

as Screenplay

1953

1957

Streetlights

as Screenplay

1959

1950

1950

1936

1955

1955

1952

The Yamabiko School

as Screenplay

1959

The Human Wall

as Screenplay

1969

1950

Street of Violence

as Screenplay

1930

Behold This Mother

as Screenplay

1964

A Story from Echigo

as Screenplay

1953

Hiroshima

as Writer

1954

The Last Women

as Screenplay

1940

Tuition

as Adaptation

1954

The End of a Day

as Executive Producer

1954

The End of a Day

as Screenplay

1937

1939

Earth

as Screenplay

1963

Kanto Wanderer

as Screenplay

1956

1940

1940

The Burning Sky

as Screenplay

1948

A Second Life

as Writer

1959

Lucky Dragon No. 5

as Screenplay

1964

1957

Rice

as Screenplay

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