Yutaka Abe Movies

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to...

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the...

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,...

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

1961 Japanese movie

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

An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks the gang rules and the law), and an older brother...

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...

The film is perhaps the only remaining example of silent era cinema from a Chinese-American production company, and was co-written, co-directed (with...

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

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

Japanese drama film.