Film

Yawara!

1989 · 1h 37m · Drama

IMDb

7.1

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.

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

Kaori Yamaguchi

Cameo

Yorie Yamashita

Sayaka

Yasuhiro Yamashita

• Kazuo YoshidaDirector
• Ikuo SekimotoScreenplay

Release date

April 15, 1989

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Drama