Movies: Yasutaro Yagi

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village....

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation....

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 plot by one of his lackeys. The conclusion of the story from Edo ni arawareta Kingu Kongu: Henge no ma...

Venice Film Festival 1939...

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka....

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....

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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 are polar opposites. When a boat sails out looking for crab and does not return one day the brothers...