Twin Sisters of Kyoto
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- Runtime
- 106 mins
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.
Cast
- Shima Iwashita
- Seiji Miyaguchi
- Yoshiko Nakamura
- Hiroyuki Nagato
- Teruo Yoshida
- Tamotsu Hayakawa
- Eijirō Tōno
- Michiyo Tamaki
- Kakuko Chino
- Junko Hara
- Haruka Shibuya
- Isao Imamura
- Koyama Katsuyo
- Kazue Tachibana
- Taniguchi Keiko
- Nishimiya Kenji
- Sōshirō Matsumoto
- Kazue Mita
- Chieko Naniwa
- Takaoka Shigekazu
- Sano Shigeru
- Fusako Suzuki
- Haruo Tanaka
- Sumi Tozuki
- Kozo Yamamura
- Eijirō Yanagi
Director
- Noboru Nakamura
Producers
- Ryōtarō Kuwata
Screenwriter
- Toshihide Gondo
