A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Born:
June 14, 1899
Died:
April 16, 1972
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.
Author:
1933 The Dancing Girl of Izu
Novel:
1933 The Dancing Girl of Izu
1936 Mr. Thank You
1952 The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1953 Reminiscence
1954 Mother's First Love
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1956 A Rainbow at Every Turn
1959 Windy Street
1963 Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1965 With Beauty and Sorrow
1966 Woman of the Lake
1968 The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1969 Thousand Cranes
1974 The Izu Dancer
1980 Koto: The Ancient City
1985 Sadness and Beauty
1995 House of Sleeping Beauties
2001 Bellas durmientes
2005 Koto
2006 House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007 Nemureru bijo
2016 The Old Capital
2019 One Arm
2019 The Master of Funerals
2022 Snow Country
Original Story:
1926 A Page of Madness
1930 Asakusa kurenaidan
1933 The Dancing Girl of Izu
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1936 Mr. Thank You
1951 Dancing Girl
1952 The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1953 Reminiscence
1954 Dancing Girls of Izu
1954 Mother's First Love
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1956 A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956 Family of Sorrow
1957 Snow Country
1958 Woman Unveiled
1959 Windy Street
1960 The Izu Dancer
1963 Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1965 Snow Country
1965 With Beauty and Sorrow
1966 Woman of the Lake
1968 The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1969 Thousand Cranes
1974 The Izu Dancer
1980 Koto: The Ancient City
1985 Sadness and Beauty
1995 House of Sleeping Beauties
2001 Bellas durmientes
2002 Shinshun! Love stories
2005 Koto
2006 House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007 Nemureru bijo
2008 A Girl in the Sunset
2008 Kataude
2009 Kingyo
2009 Love Suicides
2010 Kaidan Horror Classics
2016 The Old Capital
2019 One Arm
2019 The Master of Funerals
2022 Snow Country
Script Supervisor:
1926 A Page of Madness
1930 Asakusa kurenaidan
1933 The Dancing Girl of Izu
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1936 Mr. Thank You
1951 Dancing Girl
1951 Repast
1952 The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1953 Reminiscence
1954 Dancing Girls of Izu
1954 Mother's First Love
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1956 A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956 Family of Sorrow
1957 Snow Country
1958 Woman Unveiled
1959 Windy Street
1960 The Izu Dancer
1963 Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1965 Snow Country
1965 With Beauty and Sorrow
1966 Woman of the Lake
1968 The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1969 Thousand Cranes
1974 The Izu Dancer
1980 Koto: The Ancient City
1985 Sadness and Beauty
1995 House of Sleeping Beauties
2001 Bellas durmientes
2002 Shinshun! Love stories
2005 Koto
2006 House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007 Nemureru bijo
2008 A Girl in the Sunset
2008 Kataude
2009 Kingyo
2009 Love Suicides
2010 Kaidan Horror Classics
2016 The Old Capital
2019 One Arm
2019 The Master of Funerals
2022 Snow Country
Writer:
1926 A Page of Madness
1930 Asakusa kurenaidan
1933 The Dancing Girl of Izu
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1936 Mr. Thank You
1951 Dancing Girl
1951 Repast
1952 The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1953 Reminiscence
1954 Dancing Girls of Izu
1954 Mother's First Love
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1956 A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956 Family of Sorrow
1957 Snow Country
1958 Woman Unveiled
1959 Windy Street
1960 The Izu Dancer
1963 Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1965 Snow Country
1965 With Beauty and Sorrow
1966 Woman of the Lake
1968 The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1969 Thousand Cranes
1974 The Izu Dancer
1980 Koto: The Ancient City
1985 Sadness and Beauty
1995 House of Sleeping Beauties
2001 Bellas durmientes
2002 Shinshun! Love stories
2005 Koto
2006 House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007 Nemureru bijo
2008 A Girl in the Sunset
2008 Kataude
2009 Kingyo
2009 Love Suicides
2010 Kaidan Horror Classics
2016 The Old Capital
2019 One Arm
2019 The Master of Funerals
2022 Snow Country
Original Story:
1965 Tamayura
1986 Animated Classics of Japanese Literature
2010 妖しき文豪怪談
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