Biography
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
all 46
Movies 44
Writer 37
TV Shows 2
self 1
Novel
Snow Country (2022)
Movie
Writer
The Master of Funerals (2019)
Movie
Writer
One Arm (2019)
Movie
Writer
The Old Capital (2016)
Movie
Original Story
Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)
Movie
Writer
Kingyo (2009)
Movie
Writer
Love Suicides (2009)
Movie
Writer
Kataude (2008)
Movie
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A Girl in the Sunset (2008)
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Writer
Nemureru bijo (2007)
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Writer
House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
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Writer
Koto (2005)
Movie
Original Story
Shinshun! Love stories (2002)
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Writer
Bellas durmientes (2001)
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Writer
House of Sleeping Beauties (1995)
Movie
Original Story
Animated Classics of Japanese Literature (1986)
TV
Self
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985)
Movie
Writer
Sadness and Beauty (1985)
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Writer
Koto: The Ancient City (1980)
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Writer
The Izu Dancer (1974)
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Writer
Thousand Cranes (1969)
Movie
Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
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Writer
The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968)
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Writer
Woman of the Lake (1966)
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Writer
Snow Country (1965)
Movie
Actor
Tamayura (1965)
TV
Writer
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Movie
Writer
Love Comes with Youth (1963)
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Writer
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
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Original Story
The Izu Dancer (1960)
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Writer
Windy Street (1959)
Movie
Original Story
Woman Unveiled (1958)
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Writer
Snow Country (1957)
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Family of Sorrow (1956)
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Writer
A Rainbow at Every Turn (1956)
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Writer
Dancing Girls of Izu (1954)
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Sound of the Mountain (1954)
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Writer
Reminiscence (1953)
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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1952)
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Repast (1951)
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Writer
Dancing Girl (1951)
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Writer
Mr. Thank You (1936)
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Writer
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
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Writer
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933)
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Writer
Asakusa kurenaidan (1930)
Movie
Writer / Original Story
A Page of Madness (1926)
Movie
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Information
Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1899-06-11
Deathday1972-04-16 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceOsaka, Japan
ReligionBuddhism
RelativesKaori Kawabata
CitizenshipsJapan
ResidencesToyokawa · Kamakura, Japan
Also Known As川端康成
AwardsJapan Art Academy Prize, Person of Cultural Merit, Mainichi Publication Culture Award, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class, Nobel Prize in Literature, Kikuchi Kan Prize, Noma Literary Prize, Order of Culture, Officer of Arts and Letters
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