Lotus Blossom

A Tale of Two Worlds

The Willow Tree

The Tong Man

The Pagan God

Mystic Faces

The Cheat

The Oath of the Sword

Dawn of a Canvas

Dai shusse monogatari

The Law's Bloody Wounds

Osaka no kaze

The Barefoot Girl

Madam

Saigo no totsugeki

Flesh Smuggling

Confession

Cell No. 8

花眞珠

Fantasy of Youth

Hanran

The Battleship Yamato

Koibito-tachi no iru machi

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

Tsuki yori no haha

Snow-Flake

The Beauty of the Evening Sky

Uta e! Taiyō

The Dawn of Freedom

Bouquet of the South Seas

The Burning Sky

Children of the Sun

Kekkon nijuso: zenpen

Five Women Around Him

The Woman Who Touched The Legs

A Mermaid on Land

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).

Yutaka Abe