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| Director: | Kon Ichikawa | ||||
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| Music: | Shinichi Tanabe | ||||
| Cinematography: | Kiyoshi Hasegawa | ||||
| Studio: | Hori Planning Production | ||||
| Distributor: | Toho | ||||
| Runtime: | 125 minutes | ||||
| Country: | Japan | ||||
, also known as The Old Capital[1] [2] 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.[3] [4] [5] 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. It received a regular theatrical release in Japan on December 20, 1980.
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."