Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Twin Sisters of Kyoto (古都, Koto) is a 1963 Japanese drama film directed by Noboru Nakamura and based on the novel The Old Capital (1962) by the Nobel-winning Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata.[1] The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[2]

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Original Japanese poster
Japanese古都
HepburnKoto
Directed byNoboru Nakamura
Produced byRyôtarô Kuwata
Written byYasunari Kawabata (novel)
Toshihide Gondo (screenplay)
StarringShima Iwashita
Hiroyuki Nagato
Seiji Miyaguchi
Music byToru Takemitsu
CinematographyTôichirô Narushima
Edited byHisashi Sagara
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 13 January 1963 (1963-01-13) (Japan)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

The film was remade in 1980 under the same title, Koto, directed by Kon Ichikawa and starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura.

Plot

Set in Kyoto, 20-year-old Cheiko (Shima Iwashita) works in her parents' wholesale silk goods store. She was brought up to think her parents stole her as a baby in a fit of passionate desire and becomes profoundly disturbed to learn (after a chance encounter with a girl who turns out to be her sister) that her real parents had abandoned her. Her identity crisis is exacerbated by her need to choose between carrying on her adoptive father's kimono-designing business, now in decay, and leaving home to marry.

Cast

See also

References
  1. "古都". kotobank. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  2. "The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-03.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.