Yawara! 35 years old

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.

Credits

Bunta Sugawara as Kumajiro inokuma

Hiroshi Abe as Kosaku matsuda

Riki Takeuchi as Shinnosuke

Fujio Tokita as

Nobuhiko Takada as

Keiju Kobayashi as Jigoro inokuma

Yawara! Cast

Name	Character
Bunta Sugawara He was 55, 81 years old when he died	as Kumajiro inokuma
Hiroshi Abe He was 24, now 59 years old	as Kosaku matsuda
Riki Takeuchi He was 25, now 60 years old	as Shinnosuke
Fujio Tokita He was 52, 81 years old when he died
Nobuhiko Takada He was 27, now 62 years old
Keiju Kobayashi He was 65, 86 years old when he died	as Jigoro inokuma
Kōji Ishizaka He was 47, now 82 years old
Yorie Yamashita She was 24, now 59 years old	as Sayaka
Yui Asaka She was 19, now 54 years old	as Yawara inokuma

Yawara! Crew

Name	Department
Naoki Urasawa as Comic Book. He was 29 (now 64) years old	Writing
Ikuo Sekimoto as Screenplay. He was 46 (now 81) years old	Writing

Yawara! (35 years)

Release day: Saturday, April 15, 1989
Runtime: 97 minutes