Yasutarō Yagi

Japanese screenwriter

Yasutarō Yagi
Yasutarō Yagi in 1941
Born	(1903-02-03)February 3, 1903 Kyogashima, Gunma, Japan
Died	September 8, 1987(1987-09-08) (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.