Yasunari Kawabata

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.

Known For

Tamayura

Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

Mr. Thank You

妖しき文豪怪談

One Arm

The Izu Dancer

A Page of Madness

House of Sleeping Beauties

Sound of the Mountain

Acting

1985

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima as Self

1968

Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

Writing

2022

Snow Country as Novel

2019

The Master of Funerals as Novel

One Arm as Novel

2016

The Old Capital as Novel

2010

Kaidan Horror Classics as Original Story

妖しき文豪怪談 as Original Story

2009

Kingyo as Original Story

Love Suicides as Original Story

2008

A Girl in the Sunset as Original Story

Kataude as Original Story

2007

Nemureru bijo as Novel

2006

House of the Sleeping Beauties as Novel

2005

Koto as Novel

2002

Shinshun! Love stories as Original Story

2001

Bellas durmientes as Novel

1995

House of Sleeping Beauties as Novel

1986

Animated Classics of Japanese Literature as Original Story

1985

Sadness and Beauty as Novel

1980

Koto: The Ancient City as Novel

1974

The Izu Dancer as Novel

1969

Thousand Cranes as Novel

1968

The House of the Sleeping Virgins as Novel

1966

Woman of the Lake as Novel

1965

With Beauty and Sorrow as Novel

Snow Country as Original Story

Tamayura as Original Story

1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto as Novel

1960

The Izu Dancer as Original Story

1959

Windy Street as Novel

1958

Woman Unveiled as Original Story

1957

Snow Country as Original Story

1956

A Rainbow at Every Turn as Novel

Family of Sorrow as Original Story

1954

Sound of the Mountain as Novel

Dancing Girls of Izu as Original Story

Mother's First Love as Novel

1953

Reminiscence as Novel

1952

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa as Novel

1951

Dancing Girl as Original Story

1936

Mr. Thank You as Novel

1935

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts as Original Story

1933

The Dancing Girl of Izu as Author

1930

Asakusa kurenaidan as Original Story

1926

A Page of Madness as Original Story

A Page of Madness as Writer

Directing

1951

Repast as Script Supervisor

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