Yasunari Kawabata Movies

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

A woman lends an admirer her arm for the course of one night for him to find pleasure with it... An eerie erotic short story by Nobel Prize laureat...

While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling...

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

Hugo is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea, a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years...

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second...

Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed...

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned...

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and...

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers...

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

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...