Yasunari Kawabata Movies

  • 1995
    House of Sleeping Beauties

    House of Sleeping Beauties

    House of Sleeping Beauties

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    About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

    House of Sleeping Beauties
  • 2022
    Snow Country

    Snow Country

    Snow Country

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    Depicts the love story between an idle author and a provincial geisha.

    Snow Country
  • 1963
    Love Comes with Youth

    Love Comes with Youth

    Love Comes with Youth

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    During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru...

    Love Comes with Youth
  • 2019
    The Master of Funerals

    The Master of Funerals

    The Master of Funerals

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    Alumni of Ibaraki High School learn that one of their classmates is killed in an accident on the tenth anniversary of their graduation, necessitating...

    The Master of Funerals
  • 1954
    Dancing Girls of Izu

    Dancing Girls of Izu

    Dancing Girls of Izu

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    A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

    Dancing Girls of Izu
  • 2019
    One Arm

    One Arm

    One Arm

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    A woman lends an admirer her arm for the course of one night for him to find pleasure with it... An eerie erotic short story by Nobel Prize laureat...

    One Arm
  • 1935
    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

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    Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
  • 2005
    Koto

    Koto

    Koto

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    Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers...

    Koto
  • 2016
    The Old Capital

    The Old Capital

    The Old Capital

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    Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on...

    The Old Capital
  • 1968
    Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

    Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

    Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

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    The day after Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in Literature, a talk was held at Kawabata's residence in Kamakura. Yukio Mishima, who admires...

    Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata
  • 1930
    Asakusa kurenaidan

    Asakusa kurenaidan

    Asakusa kurenaidan

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    Describes the decadent allure of the entertainment district, Tokyo's Montmartre, where beggars and teenage prostitutes mixed with revue dancers and...

    Asakusa kurenaidan
  • 1963
    Twin Sisters of Kyoto

    Twin Sisters of Kyoto

    Twin Sisters of Kyoto

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    In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins...

    Twin Sisters of Kyoto
  • 2006
    House of the Sleeping Beauties

    House of the Sleeping Beauties

    House of the Sleeping Beauties

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    Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed...

    House of the Sleeping Beauties
  • 1952
    The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

    The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

    The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

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    The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
  • 1980
    Koto: The Ancient City

    Koto: The Ancient City

    Koto: The Ancient City

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    Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned...

    Koto: The Ancient City
  • 1953
    Reminiscence

    Reminiscence

    Reminiscence

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    Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

    Reminiscence
  • 2009
    Love Suicides

    Love Suicides

    Love Suicides

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    At an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of self-destruction and abuse...

    Love Suicides
  • 2010
    Kaidan Horror Classics

    Kaidan Horror Classics

    Kaidan Horror Classics

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    Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

    Kaidan Horror Classics
  • 1959
    Windy Street

    Windy Street

    Windy Street

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    Windy Street
  • 2008
    A Girl in the Sunset

    A Girl in the Sunset

    A Girl in the Sunset

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    Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second...

    A Girl in the Sunset