Koto (film)
Koto (古都) is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.[1]
It is a remake of the 1963 film Twin Sisters of Kyoto.
Cast
- Momoe Yamaguchi - Chieko/Myoko
- Tomokazu Miura
- Masaya Oki
- Keiko Kishi
Reception
Donald Richie in The Japanese Movie says that "Ichikawa dramatizes alienation in his remake of Kawabata's Koto, where twin sisters long-separated meet again and must face a dramatized estrangement."[2]
References
- ↑ "Kinema Jumpo - Koto (1980)" (in Japanese).
- ↑ Richie, Donald (1982). The Japanese Movie. Kodansha International. p. 199. ISBN 4-7700-0976-3.
External links
- Koto at the Internet Movie Database
- Koto at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
- Koto at CinemaScape (in Japanese)
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