Yasunari Kawabata Movies

  • 1936
    Mr. Thank You

    Mr. Thank You

    Mr. Thank You

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    In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

    Mr. Thank You
  • 1951
    Repast

    Repast

    Repast

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    Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

    Repast
  • 1954
    Sound of the Mountain

    Sound of the Mountain

    Sound of the Mountain

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    An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

    Sound of the Mountain
  • 1926
    A Page of Madness

    A Page of Madness

    A Page of Madness

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    A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

    A Page of Madness
  • 1957
    Snow Country

    Snow Country

    Snow Country

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    It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

    Snow Country
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1951
    Dancing Girl

    Dancing Girl

    Dancing Girl

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    The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

    Dancing Girl
  • 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
  • 1965
    Snow Country

    Snow Country

    Snow Country

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    This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

    Snow Country
  • 1933
    The Dancing Girl of Izu

    The Dancing Girl of Izu

    The Dancing Girl of Izu

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    "The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

    The Dancing Girl of Izu
  • 1969
    Thousand Cranes

    Thousand Cranes

    Thousand Cranes

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    The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

    Thousand Cranes
  • 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
  • 1966
    Woman of the Lake

    Woman of the Lake

    Woman of the Lake

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    A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

    Woman of the Lake
  • 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
  • 1974
    The Izu Dancer

    The Izu Dancer

    The Izu Dancer

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    While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling...

    The Izu Dancer
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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