Nobuo Aoyagi

Nobuo Aoyagi was a Japanese film director and film producer. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, he attended Meiji University but left before graduating. He worked at the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1937. He debuted as a director in 1940 and was known for a series of live action films starring the manga character Sazae-san. He also helped produce the Mito Komon series on television.

The Living Koheiji (1957)

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Senjaku Nakamura • Hisashi Igawa • Kaoru Yachigusa • Atsuko Ichinomiya

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Senjaku Nakamura • Hisashi Igawa • Kaoru Yachigusa • Atsuko Ichinomiya

Yukiko and Natsuyo (1941)

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Takako Irie • Isuzu Yamada • Minoru Takada • Ureo Egawa

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Takako Irie • Isuzu Yamada • Minoru Takada • Ureo Egawa

Four Marriages (1944)

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he is visiting to arrange an engagement for his friend who has been drafted to fight in the war. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Ureo Egawa • Takako Irie • Hideko Takamine • Isuzu Yamada

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Ureo Egawa • Takako Irie • Hideko Takamine • Isuzu Yamada

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete (1952)

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DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Ken Uehara • Kyōko Kagawa • Akira Yamanouchi • Ranko Hanai

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DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Ken Uehara • Kyōko Kagawa • Akira Yamanouchi • Ranko Hanai

Kingorô no omawari-san (1956)

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Kingorō Yanagiya • Entatsu Yokoyama • Keinosuke Wada • Chieko Sōma

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Kingorō Yanagiya • Entatsu Yokoyama • Keinosuke Wada • Chieko Sōma

Tenten Musume (1956)

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Mariko Miyagi • Ichirō Arishima • Norihei Miki • Kingorō Yanagiya

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts. (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Mariko Miyagi • Ichirō Arishima • Norihei Miki • Kingorō Yanagiya

World of Love (1943)

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are ... (more)

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Hideko Takamine • Michiko Aikawa • Tokiko Hiromachi • Atsuko Ichinomiya

DIRECTION: Nobuo Aoyagi

CAST: Hideko Takamine • Michiko Aikawa • Tokiko Hiromachi • Atsuko Ichinomiya