Yasutaro Yagi Movies

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.

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.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

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...

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially...

Japanese drama.

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

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

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

Japanese film.

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

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...