Takao Yanai

Nacimiento : 1902-02-15, Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Muerte : 1981-05-30

Películas

The River Yokobori
Screenplay
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside...
Mr. Greenhorn
Screenplay
1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
The Soundless Cry
Screenplay
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
A Roaring Trade
Screenplay
Ama lo viejo y lo nuevo
Screenplay
Hatsuko, una joven a punto de graduarse en el instituto, sufre un accidente de motocicleta mientras acompañaba a su novio Fusao. El doctor que la atiende en el hospital resulta ser un viejo conocido de su enviudada madre.
Enraptured
Screenplay
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
Umi no Chizu
Screenplay
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing.
Hiroi Ten
Screenplay
A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.
White Blaze
Screenplay
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
Ejima and Ikushima
Writer
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.
Next Door to Happiness
Screenplay
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.
Always in My Heart Part 3
Screenplay
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
Always in My Heart Part 2
Screenplay
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Always in My Heart
Screenplay
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
Beauty of Life
Writer
Inochi uruwashi
Junpaku no yoru
Screenplay
"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.
Home Sweet Home
Screenplay
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...
Kekkon Sanjûshi
Screenplay
Enoken’s Boxing Generation
Writer
Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.
Hatachi no seishun
Screenplay
Había un padre
Writer
En una ciudad provinciana, un profesor viudo lleva una vida modesta en compañía de su único hijo. Cuando en un viaje escolar, un alumno se ahoga en un lago, él asume la responsabilidad del accidente y dimite. Decide entonces abandonar la ciudad y trasladarse a su pueblo natal. Durante el viaje, padre e hijo discuten sobre el futuro y entre ellos se establece una relación al mismo tiempo cercana y distante. Un día el padre le anuncia que tiene la intención de mandarlo a estudiar a un internado. Años más tarde, el padre trabaja en Tokio y el hijo es maestro. En un encuentro el hijo le anuncia al padre que se va a la guerra.
Kateikyōshi
Screenplay
Spring Thunder
Screenplay
Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and she was suddenly thrown out into the world without any foundation. Eiko has no one to support her after she loses her social status, and her only tutor, Shinnosuke (Natsukawa Daijiro) was the only one who was sincere. Eiko is a stickler for using everything she can get her hands on, and she quickly moves into Shinnosuke's house.
Mother and Child
Screenplay
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.
Yotamono to kaisuiyoku
Writer
Island Girl
Screenplay
Japanese silent film.
Spring Comes from the Ladies
Writer
A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.
Hard Times
Screenplay
Mother
Writer
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
Jinsei no uramichi
Writer
The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.