Twin Sisters of Kyoto

6.5 / 10

(10 votes)

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

106 minutes

Year:

1963

Director:

Noboru Nakamura

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Company:

Shochiku

Cast:
Shima Iwashita

Chieko / Naeko

Seiji Miyaguchi

Takichiro Sada

Yoshiko Nakamura

Shige

Hiroyuki Nagato

Hideo Otomo

Teruo Yoshida

Ryusuke Mizuki

Crew:
Noboru Nakamura

Director

Yasunari Kawabata

Novel

Ryōtarō Kuwata

Producer

Toru Takemitsu

Original Music Composer

Tōichirō Narushima

Director of Photography