Yutaka Abe Movies

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

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of...

Original work by Hyakken Uchida.

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.

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.

Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).

1961 Japanese movie

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

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

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop,...

Japanese drama film.

An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

Japanese drama film.

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