Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

107 mins | Drama | Jan. 13, 1963

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.

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

107 mins | Drama | Jan. 13, 1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Original title 古都
Directors Noboru Nakamura
Writers Toshihide Gondo, Yasunari Kawabata

Cast

Shima Iwashita

as Chieko / Naeko

Hiroyuki Nagato

as Hideo Otomo

Seiji Miyaguchi

as Takichiro Sada

Teruo Yoshida

as Ryusuke Mizuki

Tamotsu Hayakawa

as Shinichi Mizuki

Eijirō Tōno

as Sosuke Otomo

Yoshiko Nakamura

as Shige

Michiyo Tamaki

as Masako

Kakuko Chino

as Geisha Girl

Chieko Naniwa

as Madam

Haruo Tanaka

as Uemura

Kozo Yamamura

as Visitor from Osaka

Eijirō Yanagi

as Sohei Mizuki