Kyoto Story
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- Movie: Kyoto Story
- Romaji: Kyoto Uzumasa Monogatari
- Japanese: 京都太秦物語
- Director: Yoji Yamada, Tsutomu Abe
- Writer:
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: September 18, 2010
- Runtime: 90 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Higashide Kyoko is a university librarian. She also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. She is involved with a childhood friend from the neighborhood, Yanase Kota. He is the son of the local tofu maker and has begun a moderately successful career as a stand-up comedian. A visiting lecturer from Tokyo falls head-over-heels in love with Kyoko and asks her to go abroad with him to Beijing, where he has to spend the next few years for his research. But Kyoko cannot decide. -- Berlin International Film Festival
Notes
- "Kyoto Story" is set in Uzumasa, one of the oldest parts of Kyoto city.
- The film is a collaboration between Yoji Yamada & students from Ritsumeikan University, where Yamada is a guest professor.
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Film Festivals
- 2010 (60th) Berlin International Film Festival - February 11th-21th - Forum
- 2010 (34th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 21st-April 6th - Master Class
- 2010 (30th) Hawaii International Film Festival - October 14-24 - Spotlight on Japan *North American Premiere
- 2010 (34th) Sao Paulo International Film Festival - October 22-November 4, 2010
