Yawara!

Name: Yawara!
Cast: Yui Asaka, Keiju Kobayashi, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroshi Abe, Reiko Hirayama

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Kazuo YoshidaWriter: Ikuo Sekimoto

Yui Asaka

as Yawara inokuma

Keiju Kobayashi

as Jigoro inokuma

Bunta Sugawara

as Kumajiro inokuma

Hiroshi Abe

as Kosaku matsuda

Reiko Hirayama

as Fujiko

Akira Maeda

Koji Ishizaka

Yôsuke Naka

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