Fuji Yahiro

{{short description|Japanese screenwriter}}

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| name = Fuji Yahiro

| image = YahiroFuji.JPG

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| caption = Fuji Yahiro in 1941

| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|7|18}}

| birth_place = Fukuoka Prefecture

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|11|9|1904|7|18}}

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| nationality = Japanese

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| occupation = Screenwriter

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{{nihongo|Fuji Yahiro| 八尋不二|Yahiro Fuji}} (18 July 1904 – 9 November 1986{{cite web|url=http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%85%AB%E5%B0%8B%E4%B8%8D%E4%BA%8C|title=Yahiro Fuji|work=Nihon jinmei daijiten|publisher=Kodansha|language=Japanese|accessdate=17 April 2010}}) 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.