Yasutaro Yagi

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1903-02-03

Deathday 1987-09-08 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As Yagi Yasutarou

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

Writer

1969
1965
Blood and Sea

as Screenplay

1964
A Story from Echigo

as Screenplay

1963
Kanto Wanderer

as Screenplay

1962
1959
Kashima-nada no onna

as Screenplay

1959
The Human Wall

as Screenplay

1959
Lucky Dragon No. 5

as Screenplay

1957
Streetlights

as Screenplay

1957
Rice

as Writer

1956
1955
1955
1954
The Last Women

as Screenplay

1954
The End of a Day

as Screenplay

1953
1953
1953
Hiroshima

as Writer

1952
The Yamabiko School

as Screenplay

1952
1950
1950
Street of Violence

as Screenplay

1949
1948
A Second Life

as Writer

1941
A Diary of Our Love

as Screenplay

1940
Okumura Ioka

as Screenplay

1940
Ōhinata-mura

as Writer

1940
Tuition

as Adaptation

1940
1940
The Burning Sky

as Screenplay

1939
Earth

as Screenplay

1938
Children of the Sun

as Screenplay

1937
1936
1930
Behold This Mother

as Screenplay

Director

1950
Listen to the Voices of the Sea

as Script Supervisor

1950

Producer

1954
The End of a Day

as Executive Producer