Koto: The Ancient City

Koto: The Ancient City (1980)

古都

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...

Date of release
1980-12-20
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
2h 5m
Genres
Drama
Director
Kon Ichikawa

Casting

Interesting facts

Ancient City , also known as The Old Capital is a 1980 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Old Capital. Momoe Yamaguchi and Masaya Oki made their last appearances in the film.

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