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Directed by | Kon Ichikawa |
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Based on | The novel by Yasunari Kawabata |
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Cinematography | Kiyoshi Hasegawa [1] |
Music by | Shinichi Tanabe [1] |
Production company | Hori Planning Production
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Distributed by | Toho |
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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] Momoe Yamaguchi and Masaya Oki made their last appearances in the film.
It is a remake of the 1963 film Twin Sisters of Kyoto.
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 Japan on December 20, 1980. [1]
Donald Richie writes in The Japanese Movie 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]