Yasutarō Yagi

Yasutarō Yagi
Yasutarō Yagi
	Yasutarō Yagi in 1941
Born	February 3, 1903; Kyogashima, Gunma, Japan
Died	September 8, 1987 (aged 84); The Institute of Medical Science
Nationality	Japanese
Other names	Sanshirō Mōri (毛利三四郎); Saburō Mōri (毛利三郎)
Occupation	Screenwriter

Yasutarō Yagi (八木保太郎, Yagi Yasutarō) (3 February 1903 – 8 September 1987) was a Japanese screenwriter, mostly famous for his adaptations of literary works for the director Tomu Uchida in the 1930s, such as Jinsei gekijō and Kagirinaki zenshin,[1] and for his collaborations with leftist filmmakers such as Kaneto Shindo and Tadashi Imai in the postwar period. He served as president of the Japan Screenwriters Guild.

Filmography

Screenplay: Makiba monogatari (牧場物語), “Tale of a Pasture”[2]
Moyuru ōzora (1940)[3]
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
The River with No Bridge (1969)

References

"Yagi Yasutarō". Nihon jinmei daijiten (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
Cultural Nippon, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Nov. 1938), pl. IX-X, S. iii-iv
Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.

External links

Yasutarō Yagi at IMDb
Yagi Yasutarō at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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[Kotobank-1] "Yagi Yasutarō". Nihon jinmei daijiten (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved 21 April 2010.

[2] Cultural Nippon, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Nov. 1938), pl. IX-X, S. iii-iv

[3] Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.