Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Twin Sisters of Kyoto , Koto? is a 1963 Japanese drama film directed by Noboru Nakamura and based on the novel The Old Capital 1962 by the Nobelwinning Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Set in Kyoto, 20yearold Cheiko Shima Iwashita works in her parents wholesale silk goods store. She was brought up to think her parents stole her as a baby in a fit of passionate desire and becomes profoundly disturbed to learn after a chance encounter with a girl who turns out to be her sister that her real parents had abandoned her. Her identity crisis is exacerbated by her need to choose between carrying on her adoptive fathers kimonodesigning business, now in decay, and leaving home to marry.

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