Yutaka Abe Movies

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...

1961 Japanese movie

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of...

1945 Japanese movie

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

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

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

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...

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 unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

Original work by Hyakken Uchida.

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

A three-reel silent drama about an ambitious young man leaving behind his beloved in Japan to study abroad at the University of California, Berkeley.

Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).

Venice Film Festival 1939

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

Based on that testimony, an investigation is launched in the entertainment district, and through a brief conversation between Toda and Nanako at the...