Yasutaro Yagi Movies

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

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...

Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda

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...

Drama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story.

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

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They...

1948 Japanese drama film.

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

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

Drama about the lives of seasonal migrant workers in Kashima

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.

In part two of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master has kidnapped the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge...

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.

Japanese drama.

Japanese film.

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

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...