(3 February 1903 – 8 September 1987) was a Japanese

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

, mostly famous for his adaptations of literary works for the director

Tomu Uchida , born Tsunejirō Uchida on 26 April 1898, was a Japanese film director. The stage name "Tomu" translates to “spit out dreams”. Early career Uchida started out at the Taikatsu studio in the early 1920s, but came to prominence at Nikkatsu, ada ...

in the 1930s, such as '' Jinsei gekijō'' and ''

Kagirinaki zenshin is a film directed by Tomu Uchida that was released in 1937. It received the 1938 Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film. The protagonist, Tokumaru, is laid off from his corporate job. Unable to accept this, he convinces himself that he has actually ...

'', and for his collaborations with leftist filmmakers such as

Kaneto Shindo was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include ''Children of Hiroshima'', ''The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', ''Kuroneko'' and ' ...

and

Tadashi Imai was a Japanese film director known for Social realism, social realist filmmaking informed by a Left-wing politics, left-wing perspective. His most noted films include ''An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953) and ''Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963). Life ...

in the postwar period. He served as president of the Japan Screenwriters Guild.

Filmography

* Screenplay: ''

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'' (), “Tale of a Pasture” *'' Moyuru ōzora'' (1940) *'' Lucky Dragon No. 5'' (1959) *''

The River with No Bridge is a 1992 Japanese film directed by Yōichi Higashi based on the novel by Sue Sumii. Cast *Naoko Otani as Fude Hatanaka * Tamao Nakamura as Nui Hatanaka *Tetta Sugimoto is a Japanese actor. Career Sugimoto was first a member of a rock band ...

'' (1969)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yagi, Yasutaro 1903 births 1987 deaths People from Gunma Prefecture 20th-century Japanese screenwriters