Twin Sisters of Kyoto
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- Movie: Twin Sisters of Kyoto
- Romaji: Koto
- Japanese: 古都
- Director: Noboru Nakamura
- Writer: Toshihide Gondo, Yasunari Kawabata (novel)
- Producer: Tyotaro Kuwata
- Cinematographer: Toichiro Narushima
- Release Date: January 13, 1963
- Runtime: 105 min.
- Studio: Shochiku
- Distributor: Shochiku
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Set in Kyoto, 20 year old Cheiko 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.
Notes
- Related titles:
- Koto (TV Asahi / 2005)
Cast
- Shima Iwashita - Chieko / Naeko
- Hiroyuki Nagato - Hideo Otomo
- Seiji Miyaguchi - Takichiro Sada
- Teruo Yoshida - Ryusuke Mizuki
- Tamotsu Hayakawa - Shinichi Mizuki
- Eijiro Tono - Sosuke Otomo
- Yoshiko Nakamura - Shige
- Michiyo Tamaki - Masako
- Kakuko Chino - Geisha Girl
- Chieko Naniwa - Madam
- Haruo Tanaka - Uemura
- Eijiro Yanagi - Sohei Mizuki
