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Yawara!
Yawara!
Drama

Yawara!

April 15, 1989
1h 37m

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.

Cast
Yui Asaka

Yui Asaka

Yawara inokuma

Keiju Kobayashi

Keiju Kobayashi

Jigoro inokuma

Bunta Sugawara

Bunta Sugawara

Kumajiro inokuma

Hiroshi Abe

Hiroshi Abe

Kosaku matsuda

Reiko Hirayama

Reiko Hirayama

Fujiko

Akira Maeda

Akira Maeda

Koji Ishizaka

Koji Ishizaka

Yôsuke Naka

Yôsuke Naka

Kōji Nakamoto

Kōji Nakamoto

Nobuhiko Takada

Nobuhiko Takada

Riki Takeuchi

Riki Takeuchi

Shinnosuke

Fujio Tokita

Fujio Tokita

Kaori Yamaguchi

Kaori Yamaguchi

Cameo

Yorie Yamashita

Yorie Yamashita

Sayaka

Yasuhiro Yamashita

Yasuhiro Yamashita

Crew
Kazuo Yoshida

Kazuo Yoshida

Director

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Movie Info
StatusReleased
Original LanguageJapanese
Budget (USD)N/A
Revenue (USD)N/A
Popularity0%
Released in

Japan

Spoken Languages

日本語