Koto: The Ancient City

Koto: The Ancient City (1980)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1980-12-20
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 5min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Horipro
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Summary

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are not her biological parents. Cheiko's mother told her that she was stolen while sleeping under a cherry tree in Gion, Kyoto, Japan, but Chieko doesn't believe that. Her relationship with her parents is very close. Chieko only tells her childhood friend Shinichi, but...

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  • Momoe Yamaguchi

    as Chieko / Naeko

  • Tomokazu Miura

    as

  • Jun Izumi

    as

  • Yukari Yamamoto

    as Geisha

  • Nobuyuki Ishida

    as Hideo (a weaver)

  • Yuki Kitazume

    as

  • Akiji Kobayashi

    as

  • Jun Hamamura

    as

  • Fujio Tokita

    as

  • Miki Sanjō

    as Endo's wife

  • Ayako Hosho

    as

  • Takeshi Katō

    as

  • Masaya Oki

    as

  • Jitsukawa Enjaku III

    as Takichiro Sada (Chieko's father)

  • Keiko Kishi

    as Shige (Chieko's mother)
Writing Kon Ichikawa Writer
Directing Kon Ichikawa Director
Writing Shinya Hidaka Writer
Sound Shin'ichi Tanabe Original Music Composer
Costume & Make-Up Kunio Nakayama Costume Design
Writing Yasunari Kawabata Novel
Camera Kiyoshi Hasegawa Director of Photography
Directing Yoshihiro Kawasaki Assistant Director
Art Takeharu Sakaguchi Production Design
Editing Chizuko Osada Editor

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