Movies: Yasuo Yagi

  • 2019
    A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight

    A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight (2019)

    A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight

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    This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to make a new samurai era program using the most advanced technology. While the elderly filmmakers at Kyoei are strugg...

    A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight
  • 2013
    Clock Store's Girl

    Clock Store's Girl (2013)

    Clock Store's Girl

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    The story is about the emotional and spiritual exchange between an elderly watchmaker and a cheerful and kind young woman who lost her mother in the tsunami of the Great Tohoku Earthquake. The woman asks the watchmaker to repair a wristwatch, which i...

    Clock Store's Girl
  • 2002
    Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso

    Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso (2002)

    Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso

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    At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese military. One man's face was to be transformed into that of a completely different person through plastic sur...

    Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
  • 2003
    Song of the Canefields

    Song of the Canefields (2003)

    Song of the Canefields

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    Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family takes refuge far from the city,...

    Song of the Canefields
  • 2021
    Greatest Gift of Life

    Greatest Gift of Life (2021)

    Greatest Gift of Life

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    Ryosuke lives in a small house in Toshima, Tokyo. Since his wife died, he has adjusted to living alone. He used to teach at a university and he now works as a translator. Meanwhile, Ryosuke has one child, Yuriko. She is married to Shigeyuki, who work...

    Greatest Gift of Life
  • 2009
    Ah, It's True, You Are Already Gone

    Ah, It's True, You Are Already Gone (2009)

    Ah, It's True, You Are Already Gone

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    Ah, It's True, You Are Already Gone
  • 2010
    Kikoku

    Kikoku (2010)

    Kikoku

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    An unscheduled late night train arrives at Tokyo station on 15 August, the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Boarding the train are spirits of great men who died honourable deaths in the war more than 60 years ago. They have come to t...

    Kikoku
  • 2006
    Our War

    Our War (2006)

    Our War

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    "Our War" is a special drama produced by Japanese TBS TV. This is the third bomb of the war-themed TV series after the "Song of Sugarcane Field" and "Guangzhou·Showa August 6th, 20th." It is said that in 2005, young people from the end of the island,...

    Our War
  • 1993
    Roman Holiday

    Roman Holiday (1993)

    Roman Holiday

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    A newscaster meets and falls in love with a woman in Rome who is the spitting image of the Crown Prince's bride-to-be....

    Roman Holiday
  • 2011
    Toire no kamisama

    Toire no kamisama (2011)

    Toire no kamisama

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    Kana Uemura's song "Toilet no Kamisama" turned into a 2-hour drama special on TBS. The song, which is nearly 10 minutes in length, tells of Uemura's relationship with her grandmother, from her childhood to her grandmother's death....

    Toire no kamisama
  • 1985
    Jesus' Ark

    Jesus' Ark (1985)

    Jesus' Ark

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    One-episode drama starring Beat Takeshi depicting the turbulent life of the protagonist Takeyoshi Sengoku, based on the "Jesus' Ark Incident"....

    Jesus' Ark
  • 2012
    Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi

    Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi (2012)

    Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi

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    The drama is set on the Twilight Express, Japan's longest overnight train service, which runs approximately 22 hours between Osaka and Sapporo. Nakayama and Sato play Chie and Keisuke, two lovers who have decided to part ways at the end of the journe...

    Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi
  • 1983
    The Lonely Olympics

    The Lonely Olympics (1983)

    The Lonely Olympics

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    This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater boat). Every night he stays up all night playing mahjong and drinking. Masao lives his life aimlessly,...

    The Lonely Olympics
  • 2012
    悪女について

    悪女について (2012)

    悪女について

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    Erika Sawajiri plays Kimiko, the main character of the story who has died. Although the title implies that it is a story of a “wicked woman,” the original novel was divided into 27 chapters, one for each “testimony” by someone who knew Kimiko at some...

    悪女について
  • 1983
    The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo

    The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo (1983)

    The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo

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    Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who raped and killed eight women in Japan in 1971. The case moved the wh...

    The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo
  • 2008
    What the War Meant

    What the War Meant (2008)

    What the War Meant

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    The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three...

    What the War Meant
  • 2021
    Raijingu Jakuchu

    Raijingu Jakuchu (2021)

    Raijingu Jakuchu

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    Raijingu Jakuchu