Biography
Yagi Masao (八木正生, Yagi Masao, November 14, 1932 – March 4, 1991) was a Japanese pianist who became devoted to American jazz very early in the wave of Japanese jazz enthusiasm. He became a member of the Cozy Quartet in 1956 after Toshiko Akiyoshi's departure, playing alongside Sadao Watanabe. Robin Kelley, in his biography of Thelonious Monk, says that before his inaugural 1963 tour, "Monk's greatest champion in Japan was not a critic but a pianist named Yagi Masao. In 1959, the twenty-six-year-old pianist formed his own group featuring several Monk tunes in their repertoire, culminating in his debut LP, Masao Yagi Plays Thelonious Monk, recorded in the summer of 1960." Later in the 1960s he played with Charlie Mariano, Hidehiko Matsumoto, and Helen Merrill, and in the 1970s led his own ensembles. He was well-known as a composer and arranger, and wrote copiously for film soundtracks.
Filmography
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Movies 118
TV Shows 1
Kaito Ruby (1988)
Morning Moon Is Cruel (1981)
Tarao Bannai (1978)
Sensei no tsushinbo (1977)
Red-Hot Youth (1977)
Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977)
Hell Riders (1976)
Jail Breakers (1976)
Green Lovers (1975)
The Murder Corps (1975)
The Great Chase (1975)
Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack (1975)
Yakuza vs. Gang Leader (1974)
The Tattooed Hitman (1974)
Woman Mobsters (1974)
The Transgressor (1974)
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
Farewell to Rock'n Roll (1973)
Japan's Top Gangster (1973)
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973)
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban (1973)
Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom (1972)
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm (1972)
Delinquent Street (1972)
Zorome no San Kyoudai (1972)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter (1971)
Wolves of the City: First to Fight (1971)
Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us (1971)
The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup (1971)
Kigeki Toruko-buro Osho-sen (1971)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape (1971)
Wolves on Motorcycles (1971)
Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair (1971)
The Swindlers (1970)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow (1970)
Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate (1970)
Kigeki Gyanburu Hisshôhô (1970)
The Experience (1970)
Fugitive Scoundrel (1970)
The Good Little Bad Girl (1970)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri (1970)
Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance (1970)
Three Pretty Devils (1970)
A Kamikaze Cop (1970)
Brothers of Capones (1970)
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life (1970)
Wolves of the City, Money Hunters (1970)
Tomorrow's Joe (1970)
The Sunset is Calling Me (1970)
Born Fighter (1970)
Zoku Isoginchaku (1970)
Brave Red Flower of the North (1970)
Wolves of the City: Checkmate (1970)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town (1969)
Woman (1969)
Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat" (1969)
Love and Crime (1969)
The Bad Guy Blues (1969)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2 (1969)
Killer's Mission (1969)
Wolf Escort (1969)
Port City Blues (1969)
Daring Girls (1969)
Yakuza Law (1969)
A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw (1969)
The Bad Boss 3 (1969)
Inferno of Torture (1969)
Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin (1969)
Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love (1969)
Nippon '69 Sexual Curiosity Seeking Zone (1969)
Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City (1969)
Orgies of Edo (1969)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri (1968)
Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)
The Notorious Concubines (1968)
The Cheating Underworld (1968)
My Destiny (1968)
The Drifting Avenger (1968)
Industrial Spy (1968)
Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy (1968)
The Bad Boss (1968)
Tattooed Temptress (1968)
Once and For All Pt.2 (1968)
Good-bye Moscow (1968)
Scoundrel (1968)
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm (1967)
Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy (1967)
Yanagase Blues (1967)
Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil (1967)
A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance (1967)
The Chivalrous Life (1967)
Once and For All (1967)
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido (1967)
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country (1966)
Secret Agent 101 (1966)
Glorious Fights (1966)
The Pretty Jade (1966)
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South (1966)
Nocturnal Lights (1966)
The Kamikaze Guy (1966)
A Sky Full of Tears (1966)
The Bullet and the Horse (1966)
Pretty Devil Yoko (1966)
Night Bitch (1966)
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 (1965)
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 (1965)
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 (1965)
Black Snow (1965)
Abashiri Prison (1965)
The Boss (1965)
Storm Party (1964)
Escape from Japan (1964)
The Shogun's Vault (1964)
An Outlaw (1964)
Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang (1964)
Gang and G-Men Part 2 (1963)
Eleven Gangsters (1963)
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
All Rascals (1962)
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GenderMale
Birthday1932-11-14
Deathday1991-03-04 (58 years old)
Birth PlaceTokyo, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known As八木正生
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