Biography
Yutaka Abe (阿部 豊, Abe Yutaka, February 2, 1895 in Yamoto, Miyagi – January 3, 1977 in Kyoto) was a Japanese film director and actor. He went to America along with a younger brother to visit an uncle living in Los Angeles. There he enrolled in an acting school, and upon hearing that Thomas H. Ince was looking for Japanese extras to work in his studios, he applied and was accepted in 1914. He appeared in such films as The Wrath of the Gods and The Cheat with Sessue Hayakawa. He was often billed as "Jack Abbe" or "Jack Yutake Abbe." He returned to Japan in 1925, finding work at the Nikkatsu studio, and soon made his debut as a director. Among his early works was the 1926 silent film The Woman Who Touched the Legs (Ashi ni sawatta onna), a comedy about a writer and a woman thief. This film, along with most of Abe's early work, is now lost. Before and during World War II, Abe directed a number of nationalistic propaganda films including Moyuru ōzora (Flaming Sky) and Ano hata o ute (Fire on That Flag).
After the war, he directed the 1950 film adaptation of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters, a film which brought him commercial success. His later films include the 1959 satirical comedy Season of Affairs (Uwaki no kisetsu).
Filmography
all 34
Movies 34
Director 25
Dawn of a Canvas (1961)
The Law's Bloody Wounds (1960)
Osaka no kaze (1958)
Madam (1957)
Saigo no totsugeki (1957)
Flesh Smuggling (1956)
Confession (1956)
Cell No. 8 (1956)
花眞珠 (1955)
Fantasy of Youth (1955)
Hanran (1954)
The Battleship Yamato (1953)
Koibito-tachi no iru machi (1953)
I Was a Prisoner in Siberia (1952)
Tsuki yori no haha (1951)
Snow-Flake (1950)
The Beauty of the Evening Sky (1948)
The Dawn of Freedom (1944)
Bouquet of the South Seas (1942)
The Burning Sky (1940)
Children of the Sun (1938)
Kekkon nijuso: zenpen (1928)
Five Women Around Him (1927)
The Woman Who Touched The Legs (1926)
A Mermaid on Land (1926)
Lotus Blossom (1921)
A Tale of Two Worlds (1921)
Locked Lips (1920)
The Willow Tree (1920)
The Tong Man (1919)
The Pagan God (1919)
Mystic Faces (1918)
The Cheat (1915)
The Oath of the Sword (1914)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1895-02-02
Deathday1977-02-03 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceMiyagi prefecture, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known AsJack Abbe , 阿部豊, 阿部ジャック
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