| Nationality Japanese Died November 9, 1986 Role Screenwriter | Name Fuji Yahiro Occupation Screenwriter | |
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| Born July 18, 1904 (1904-07-18) Fukuoka Prefecture Movies Sansho the Bailiff, Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Great White Tiger Platoon, The Princess Sen, Ghost‑Cat of Gojusan‑Tsugi Similar People Yoshikata Yoda, Masaichi Nagata, Daisuke Ito, Kenji Mizoguchi, Shintaro Katsu | ||
Fuji Yahiro (八尋不二, Yahiro Fuji) (18 July 1904 – 9 November 1986) was a Japanese screenwriter, mostly of chanbara films. His real name was Minoru Yahiro. Leaving Meiji University before graduating, he began writing screenplays at Shōzō Makino's Makino Film Productions in 1927. He ended up penning hundreds of screenplays at many studios, such as Teikine, Shinkō Kinema, and Daiei. He also participated in the "Narutakimura" group, writing screenplays with Sadao Yamanaka, Hiroshi Inagaki, Eisuke Takizawa and others. He also wrote many books and received the Order of the Rising Sun in 1975.
Selected filmography
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