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Kyoto Story

Film

Kyoto Story

A young woman in a committed relationship falls for a handsome scholar.

6.6

1h 30m

2010

“A young woman in a committed relationship falls for a handsome scholar.”

Synopsis

Kyoko is a university librarian and she also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. She is involved with a childhood friend from the neighborhood, Kota. He is the son of the local tofu maker and has begun a moderately successful career as a stand-up comedian. A visiting lecturer from Tokyo falls head-over-heels in love with Kyoko and asks her to go abroad with him to Beijing, where he has to spend the next few years for his research. But Kyoko cannot decide.

Director

Yoji Yamada

Tsutomu Abe

Drama

Cast & Crew

Hana Ebise

Hana Ebise

as Kyoko

Yoshihiro Usami

as Kota

Sotaro Tanaka

Sotaro Tanaka

as Enoki

Rei Dan

Rei Dan

as Narrator (voice)

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