Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
June 14, 1899
Died
April 16, 1972
Age
72
Place of Birth
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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Yasunari Kawabata
Writing
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.
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Tamayura
1965 · TV
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Kaidan Horror Classics
2010 · TV
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Animated Classics of Japanese Literature
1986 · TV
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Asakusa monogatari
1953 · Movie
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A Page of Madness
1926 · Movie
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 · Movie
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The Izu Dancer
1974 · Movie
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Keiko and Yves Get Married
1957 · Movie
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The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985 · Movie
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Sound of the Mountain
1954 · Movie
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Snow Country
1965 · Movie
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963 · Movie