Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
1h 46m
Running Time
January 13, 1963Release Date
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
1h 46m
Running Time
January 13, 1963Release Date
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Plot.
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.
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Cast & Crew.

Shima Iwashita
Chieko / Naeko

Seiji Miyaguchi
Takichiro Sada

Yoshiko Nakamura
Shige

Hiroyuki Nagato
Hideo Otomo

Teruo Yoshida
Ryusuke Mizuki

Tamotsu Hayakawa
Shinichi Mizuki

Eijirō Tōno
Sosuke Otomo

Michiyo Tamaki
Masako

Kakuko Chino
Geisha Girl

Junko Hara

Haruka Shibuya

Chieko Naniwa
Madam

Haruo Tanaka
Uemura

Kozo Yamamura
Visitor from Osaka

Eijirō Yanagi
Sohei Mizuki

Noboru Nakamura
Director

Tōichirō Narushima
Director of Photography

Yasunari Kawabata
Novel

Hisashi Sagara
Editor

Ryōtarō Kuwata
Producer

Toru Takemitsu
Original Music Composer

Junichi Ôsumi
Art Direction

Takeji Sano
Lighting Technician

Toshihide Gondo
Screenplay

Taniguchi Keiko

Kazue Tachibana

Koyama Katsuyo

Sumi Tozuki

Isao Imamura

Fusako Suzuki

Sano Shigeru

Takaoka Shigekazu

Kazue Mita

Sōshirō Matsumoto

Nishimiya Kenji
Media.

Details.
Wiki.
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japanese: 古都, Hepburn: Koto) is a 1963 Japanese drama film directed by Noboru Nakamura, based on the novel The Old Capital (1962) by Nobel Prize laureate Yasunari Kawabata. The film was Japan's submission for the 1964 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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