Two twin girls are separated at birth. One grows up in a loving family. The other one doesn’t. They finally meet by complete accident on a town fair. No one ever told them about the other one so they begin familiarizing with each other.
Director: Noboru Nakamura. AKA 古都 / Twin Sisters of Kyoto.
Writers: Toshihide Gondo, Yasunari Kawabata (novel).
Stars: Shima Iwashita, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Teruo Yoshida, Tamotsu Hayakawa, Eijirô Tôno, Yoshiko Nakamura, Michiyo Tamaki.
1964 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Another Foreign Language Film nominee! Awesome.
Thank you very much! What a great actress Shima Iwashita was.
Don’t you have Akane-Gumo (1967)?
I have it, this week I have a ton of movies to upload but will try to put it up next week 🙂
Based on the great novel by Nobel Prize laureate Yasunari Kawabata!
Thank you. Love Japanese films from that era. I have never seen this one. Will watch it tonight.
Very delicate, very subtle, very Japanese. A film about the reunion of separated sisters becomes a film about identity itself. There are no bad guys here (not even the shady general manager of the firm, who keeps two sets of books). There are only the suffering souls of two nice, well-meaning young ladies whose reunion gives them as much sorrow as joy. Iwashita is stunning: this is her youthful peak.