Yasutaro Yagi Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes...

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

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

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

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

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 story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

1948 Japanese drama film.