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Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
Directed by Noboru Nakamura
Drama · 1h 46m
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.
Cast
Shima Iwashita
Seiji Miyaguchi
Hiroyuki Nagato
Teruo Yoshida
Tamotsu Hayakawa
Eijirō Tōno
Michiyo Tamaki
Kakuko Chino
Crew
- Director
- Noboru Nakamura
- Screenplay
- Toshiro Ide
- Novel
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Director of Photography
- Tōichirō Narushima
- Original Music Composer
- Tōru Takemitsu
- Editor
- Hisashi Sagara
- Producer
- Ryōtarō Kuwata
Details
- Original title
- 古都
- Release date
- 1963-01-13
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shochiku