Koto (film)

Koto
Directed by	Kon Ichikawa
Produced by	Takeo Hori Hideo Sasai^[1]
Screenplay by	Shinya Hidaka Kon Ichikawa^[1]
Based on	The novel by Yasunari Kawabata
Starring	Momoe Yamaguchi Tomokazu Miura Keiko Kishi
Music by	Shinichi Tanabe^[1]
Cinematography	Kiyoshi Hasegawa^[1]
Production company	Hori Planning Production^[1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	6 December 1980 (1980-12-06) (Japan)
Running time	125 minutes^[1]
Country	Japan

Koto (古都) is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Old Capital.^[2]

It is a remake of the 1963 film Twin Sisters of Kyoto.

Cast

Release

Koto received a roadshow theatrical release in Japan on December 6, 1980 where it was distributed by Toho.^[1] It received a regular theatrical release in Jpaan on December 20, 1980.^[1]

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."^[3]

References

Footnotes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Galbraith IV 2008, p. 325.
↑ "Kinema Jumpo - Koto (1980)" (in Japanese).
↑ Richie, Donald (1982). The Japanese Movie. Kodansha International. p. 199. ISBN 4-7700-0976-3.

Sources

Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 1461673747. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

External links

Koto on IMDb
Koto at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
"Koto". CinemaScape (in Japanese).

Films directed by Kon Ichikawa

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Hole (1957)
Enjō (1958)
Odd Obsession (1959)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Jokyo (1960)
Her Brother (1960)
Ten Dark Women (1961)
Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
To Love Again (1971)
Visions of Eight (1973)
The Inugamis (1976)
Koto (1980)
Kofuku (1981)
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Ohan (1984)
The Burmese Harp (1985)
Princess from the Moon (1987)
Kaetekita Kogarashi Monjirō (1993)
47 Ronin (1994)
Dora-heita (2001)
The Inugamis (2006)

Works by Yasunari Kawabata

Works

Novels	The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1930) Snow Country (1935–1937), (1947) The Master of Go (1951–1954) Thousand Cranes (1949–1952) The Sound of the Mountain (1949–1954) The Lake (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Beauty and Sadness (1964) Dandelion (1964, 1972)
Short stories	"The Dancing Girl of Izu" (1926) One Arm (1964) Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Notable
adaptations

Sound of the Mountain (1954)
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1954)
Snow Country (1957)
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Woman of the Lake (1966)
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1974)
Koto (1980)
Sleeping Beauty (2011)

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