The Silk Road (film)
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Not to be confused with Silk Road (film).
The Silk Road (Japanese: 敦煌, Hepburn: Tonkō), also known as Dun-Huang, is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Junya Satō. The movie was adapted from the 1959 novel Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue. The backdrop of the plotline is the Mogao Caves, a Buddhist manuscript trove in Dunhuang, Western China, located along the Silk Road during the Song dynasty in the 11th century.
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Directed by | Junya Satō[1] |
Written by | Junya Satō Takeshi Yoshida |
Based on | Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue |
Produced by | Kazuo Haruna Atsushi Takeda Yoshihiro Yûki |
Starring | Toshiyuki Nishida |
Cinematography | Akira Shiizuka |
Edited by | Akira Suzuki |
Music by | Masaru Satō |
Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 143 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | ¥8.2 billion (Japan) $123,959 (USA) |
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The film was released in Japan and China on June 25, 1988.[2] It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.[3] It is one of the highest-grossing Japanese films of all time.