Yawara! (1989)
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.
- Date of release
- 1989-04-15
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Kazuo Yoshida
Casting
- Yui Asaka — Yawara inokuma
- Keiju Kobayashi — Jigoro inokuma
- Bunta Sugawara — Kumajiro inokuma
- Hiroshi Abe — Kosaku matsuda
- Reiko Hirayama — Fujiko
- Akira Maeda
- Koji Ishizaka
- Yôsuke Naka
- Kōji Nakamoto
- Nobuhiko Takada
- Riki Takeuchi — Shinnosuke
- Fujio Tokita
Interesting facts
- Based on: Yawara!
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