Yutaka Abe Movies

Japanese drama film.

1945 Japanese movie

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to...

A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako’s past includes being sold into servitude and an...

Shozo, a personnel manager nearing retirement, had three daughters around their age. The eldest daughter, Naoko, is the brilliant type, the second...

An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

The film is perhaps the only remaining example of silent era cinema from a Chinese-American production company, and was co-written, co-directed (with...

After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself...

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.

Bruce Winthrop, disguised as a clerk in the American consulate near the Mongolian border, is actually a secret United States government operative...