Koto: The Ancient City

6.0
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 125 min
  • Premiere: 1980. December 20.

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...

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Art

Takeharu Sakaguchi

Production Design

Camera

Kiyoshi Hasegawa

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Kunio Nakayama

Costume Design

Directing

Kon Ichikawa

Director

Yoshihiro Kawasaki

Assistant Director

Editing

Sound

Shin'ichi Tanabe

Original Music Composer