Yasunari Kawabata

Writing

June 14, 1899 — April 16, 1972

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

3 movies

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.

🎬 Yasunari Kawabata's Filmography

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The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi.

Keiko and Yves Get Married

1957

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A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

1985

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 Kawabata, and Sei Ito, a literary critic, celebrate the first honor of the Japanese people, and this is a valuable opportunity for the three to meet and talk.

Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

1968