Yasunari Kawabata Filmes

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

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.

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.

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

"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...

Lawrence, a renowned writer, comes to Santiago to spend a winter course. There, by his colleague Elijah, finds a very special house on the outskirts...

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

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...

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

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

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

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

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

Shinshun! Love stories (新春! LOVEストーリーズ) is a 2002 Japanese telefilm starring members of the...

An old man, Mr. Eguchi accidentally finds a special hotel for gentlemen that are called "House of the sleeping beauties" by the sea. When a guest...

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...

A man gets one arm of a woman who he fell in love, just one night. After that a man has a tragic nightmare because of one arm. The background of this...