Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Noboru Nakamura
Shima Iwashita
Seiji Miyaguchi
Teruo Yoshida
Tamotsu Hayakawa
Hiroyuki Nagato
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Chieko, the daughter of a successful drygoods merchant living in Kyoto, was born a twin and abandoned as an infant along with her sister in accordance with the old superstition that twins were unlucky and unnatural. To shield her from the shame of being an abandoned twin, Chieko's parents have told her they kidnaped her from an unsuspecting mother. Chieko senses that her parents are concealing information from her, and her suspicions are confirmed when she meets an orphaned peasant girl, Naeko, who is her exact double. While both sisters are involved in love affairs, Chieko begins to feel insecure about her suitor, an educated young man whom she thinks may love the image of her sister rather than her.
Director
Noboru Nakamura
Cast
Shima Iwashita
Seiji Miyaguchi
Teruo Yoshida
Tamotsu Hayakawa
Hiroyuki Nagato
Michiyo Tamaki
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Foreign Language Film
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Released in Japan in 1963 as Koto.
Miscellaneous Notes
1963 Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Shown at 1963 Asian Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival December 1963.
c Eastmancolor
dialogue Japanese
GrandScope
