Yutaka Abe Movies

1961 Japanese movie

Venice Film Festival 1939

A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in agony over her hidden past.

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...

This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the...

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 true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to...

Japanese drama film.

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

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

1945 Japanese movie

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

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...

Original work by Hyakken Uchida.

Yano is a small delivery boy for his uncle, who keeps a curio shop in Chinatown. His loves are Tama, his sweetheart, and Bengi, his dog. Bengi is...

Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack 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.

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