Yutaka Yamanaka

Dawn of the Mountain Village

An educational film about how a backward impoverished village was able to prosper thanks to the initiative of the village youth who began to grow tobacco.

Pure Heart

An enlightening film about a teacher who sees a rich student despise a poor student, and eventually the students study hard with each other's affection.

Light of the Sea

A pro-Japanese propaganda film designed to inspire Korean fishermen to cooperate with the occupying regime.

I Will Die Under My Flag

Pro-Japanese propaganda film to educate the people in Korea. The old man, convinced that "the expansion of production is the duty of the entire population," faints while alone carrying water to the family's rice field. At the request of the old man to spare no effort to expand production to help the emperor, the women gather together to carry water to the old man's field.