The Silk Road

The Silk Road
Directed by Junya Sato[1]
Written by Yasushi Inoue (story)
Junya Sato (screenplay)
Starring Toshiyuki Nishida
Music by Masaru Satô
Cinematography Akira Shiizuka
Editing by Akira Suzuki
Distributed by Toho
Release date(s) June 25, 1988
Running time 143 min.
Country Japan
Language Japanese

The Silk Road (敦煌 Tonkō?) aka Dun-Huang is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Junya Sato. The movie was adapted from the 1959 novel Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue with the backdrop of the plotline being the Mogao Caves manuscript trove. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.[2]

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Reception

The Silk Road was the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1988, earning ¥4.5 billion in distribution income.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Infobox data from "敦煌" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1988/dl001410.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-12.  and Dun-Huang (1988) at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ "Awards for Dun-Huang (1988)" (in Japanese). Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095071/awards. Retrieved 2009-05-05. 
  3. ^ "Kako haikyū shūnyū jōi sakuhin 1988-nen" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. http://www.eiren.org/toukei/1988.html. Retrieved 5 February 2011. 
Films directed by Junya Sato