Yawara!

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.

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

97 minutes

Year:

1989

Director:

Kazuo Yoshida

Cast:
Yui Asaka

Yawara inokuma

Keiju Kobayashi

Jigoro inokuma

Bunta Sugawara

Kumajiro inokuma

Hiroshi Abe

Kosaku matsuda

Reiko Hirayama

Fujiko

Crew:
Naoki Urasawa

Comic Book

Ikuo Sekimoto

Screenplay

Kazuo Yoshida

Director

Naoki Urasawa

Writer