Yasunari Kawabata was born on June 11, 1899 in Osaka, Japan. He was a writer and actor, known for A Page of Madness (1926), The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933) and Asakusa kurenaidan (1930). He was married to Hideko Keizo. He died on April 16, 1972 in Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan.