Yawara!

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 15, 1989

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Yôsuke Naka,Nobuhiko Takada,Fujio Tokita,Keiju Kobayashi,Bunta Sugawara,Koji Ishizaka,Koji Nakamoto,Yasuhiro Yamashita,Riki Takeuchi,Akira Maedaand 5 more

Director

Kazuo Yoshida

Writer

Ikuo Sekimoto,Naoki Urasawa

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1621068