Twin Sisters of Kyoto

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.

6.5

106 min

Cast

Shima Iwashita

as Chieko / Naeko

Seiji Miyaguchi

as Takichiro Sada

Yoshiko Nakamura

as Shige

Hiroyuki Nagato

as Hideo Otomo

Teruo Yoshida

as Ryusuke Mizuki

Tamotsu Hayakawa

as Shinichi Mizuki

Eijirō Tōno

as Sosuke Otomo

Michiyo Tamaki

as Masako

Kakuko Chino

as Geisha Girl

Junko Hara

Haruka Shibuya

Isao Imamura

Koyama Katsuyo

Kazue Tachibana

Taniguchi Keiko

Nishimiya Kenji

Sōshirō Matsumoto

Kazue Mita

Chieko Naniwa

as Madam

Takaoka Shigekazu

Sano Shigeru

Fusako Suzuki

Haruo Tanaka

as Uemura

Sumi Tozuki

Kozo Yamamura

as Visitor from Osaka

Eijirō Yanagi

as Sohei Mizuki

Director

Noboru Nakamura