Yasunari Kawabata

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Yasunari Kawabata

Writing June 14, 1899

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese…

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A Page of Madness

A Page of Madness

7.3 1926 Movie
Tamayura

Tamayura

1965 TV Show
Sound of the Mountain

Sound of the Mountain

7.4 1954 Movie
Repast

Repast

7.6 1951 Movie
Mr. Thank You

Mr. Thank You

7.1 1936 Movie
Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

7.5 1986 TV Show
Woman of the Lake

Woman of the Lake

7.1 1966 Movie
House of the Sleeping Beauties

House of the Sleeping Beauties

5.3 2006 Movie
Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

6.5 1963 Movie
With Beauty and Sorrow

With Beauty and Sorrow

5.7 1965 Movie
Kingyo

Kingyo

6.3 2009 Movie
Kaidan Horror Classics

Kaidan Horror Classics

8.0 2010 TV Show

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Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2022
    Snow Country

    Movie Novel

  2. 2019
    The Master of Funerals

    Movie Novel

  3. 2019
    One Arm

    Movie Novel

  4. 2016
    The Old Capital

    Movie Novel

  5. 2010
    Kaidan Horror Classics

    TV show Original Story

  6. 2010
    Kaidan Horror Classics

    Movie Original Story

  7. 2009
    Kingyo

    Movie Original Story

  8. 2009
    Love Suicides

    Movie Original Story

  9. 2008
    Kataude

    Movie Original Story

  10. 2008
    A Girl in the Sunset

    Movie Original Story

  11. 2007
    Nemureru bijo

    Movie Novel

  12. 2006
    House of the Sleeping Beauties

    Movie Novel

  13. 2005
    Koto

    Movie Novel

  14. 2002
    Shinshun! Love stories

    Movie Original Story

  15. 2001
    Bellas durmientes

    Movie Novel

  16. 1995
    House of Sleeping Beauties

    Movie Novel

More credits
  1. 1986
    Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

    TV show Original Story

  2. 1985
    The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

    Movie Self

  3. 1985
    Sadness and Beauty

    Movie Novel

  4. 1980
    Koto: The Ancient City

    Movie Novel

  5. 1977
    The Land of Snow

    Movie Novel

  6. 1974
    The Izu Dancer

    Movie Novel

  7. 1969
    Through Days and Months

    Movie Novel

  8. 1969
    Thousand Cranes

    Movie Novel

  9. 1968
    Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

    Movie

  10. 1968
    The House of the Sleeping Virgins

    Movie Novel

  11. 1967
    The Izu Dancer

    Movie Original Story

  12. 1966
    Woman of the Lake

    Movie Novel

  13. 1965
    Snow Country

    Movie Novel

  14. 1965
    Tamayura

    TV show Original Story

  15. 1965
    With Beauty and Sorrow

    Movie Novel

  16. 1963
    Love Comes with Youth

    Movie Writer

  17. 1963
    Twin Sisters of Kyoto

    Movie Novel

  18. 1960
    The Izu Dancer

    Movie Original Story

  19. 1959
    Windy Street

    Movie Novel

  20. 1958
    Woman Unveiled

    Movie Original Story

  21. 1957
    Keiko and Yves Get Married

    Movie himself

  22. 1957
    Snow Country

    Movie Novel

  23. 1956
    Family of Sorrow

    Movie Original Story

  24. 1956
    A Rainbow at Every Turn

    Movie Novel