Yawara!(1989)

series - first aired/released 1989-10-16 - audience 6.7

Animation, Comedy, Drama

Directed by Akio Sakai, Hirohide Fujiwara, Hiroko Tokita, Junichi Sakata, Katsuhisa Yamada, Makoto Moriwaki, Naoto Kanda, Satoru Namekawa, Tatsuhiko Urahata, Tensai Okamura, Tsukasa Abe

Inokuma Yawara is just another young high school girl. Well, not quite - for Yawara is being raised by her grandfather, 7th dan Judo master Inokuma Jigorou, to be Japan's great hope for the women's Judo competition at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. All the same, Yawara just wants to live a normal life...