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Twin Sisters of Kyoto is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kon Ichikawa with Shima Iwashita

Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)

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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
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Length 1h47
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OriginJapon
Genres Drama
Rating70% 3.5109353.5109353.5109353.5109353.510935

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. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Shima Iwashita

(Chieko / Naeko)Momoe Yamaguchi
Seiji Miyaguchi

(Takichiro Sada)Hiroyuki Nagato

(Hideo Otomo)Eijirō Tōno

(Sosuke Otomo)
And :
Chieko Naniwa
Haruo Tanaka
Eijirō Yanagi
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