Yawara!

Yawara! (1989)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1989-04-15
  • Runtime: 1h 37min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Kazuo Yoshida

Summary

Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jigorou Inokuma, with the aim of achieving the championship in Japan and the gold medal in the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Because of the pressure from her grandfather she has a generally bad attitude about judo, avoiding it as much as she can. However, over time she comes to understand why her grandfather loves judo and appreciates it more.

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  • Yui Asaka

    as Yawara inokuma

  • Keiju Kobayashi

    as Jigoro inokuma

  • Bunta Sugawara

    as Kumajiro inokuma

  • Hiroshi Abe

    as Kosaku matsuda

  • Reiko Hirayama

    as Fujiko

  • Akira Maeda

    as

  • Koji Ishizaka

    as

  • Yôsuke Naka

    as

  • Koji Nakamoto

    as

  • Nobuhiko Takada

    as

  • Riki Takeuchi

    as Shinnosuke

  • Fujio Tokita

    as

  • Kaori Yamaguchi

    as Cameo

  • Yorie Yamashita

    as Sayaka

  • Yasuhiro Yamashita

    as
Writing Ikuo Sekimoto Screenplay
Writing Naoki Urasawa Comic Book
Directing Kazuo Yoshida Director

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