Koto: The Ancient City

2h 5m
Drama
6

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...

Cast

Momoe Yamaguchi
Chieko / Naeko
Tomokazu Miura
Unknown
Jun Izumi
Unknown
Yukari Yamamoto
Geisha
Nobuyuki Ishida
Hideo (a weaver)
Yuki Kitazume
Unknown
Akiji Kobayashi
Unknown
Jun Hamamura
Unknown
Fujio Tokita
Unknown
Miki Sanjō
Endo's wife
Ayako Hosho
Unknown
Takeshi Katō
Unknown
Masaya Oki
Unknown
Jitsukawa Enjaku III
Takichiro Sada (Chieko's father)
Keiko Kishi
Shige (Chieko's mother)

Crew

Kon Ichikawa
Director, Writer
Shinya Hidaka
Writer
Yasunari Kawabata
Novel
Chizuko Osada
Editor
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Director of Photography
Yoshihiro Kawasaki
Assistant Director
Takeharu Sakaguchi
Production Design
Kunio Nakayama
Costume Design
Shin'ichi Tanabe
Original Music Composer

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