| The Silk Road | |
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| Directed by | Junya Satō[1] |
| Written by | Junya Satō Takeshi Yoshida |
| Based on | Tun-Huang byYasushi 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) |
The Silk Road (Japanese:敦煌,Hepburn:Tonkō), also known asDun-Huang, is a1988Japanese film directed byJunya Satō. The movie was adapted from the 1959 novelTun-Huang byYasushi Inoue. The backdrop of the plotline is theMogao Caves, a Buddhist manuscript trove inDunhuang,Western China, located along theSilk Road during theSong dynasty in the11th century.
The film was released in Japan and China on June 25, 1988.[2] It was chosen as Best Film at theJapan Academy Prize ceremony.[3] It is the48th-highest-grossing Japanese film of all time.
The Silk Road was the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1988, earning ¥4.5 billion in distribution income that year.[4] It was the thirdhighest-grossing Japanese film up until then, afterAntarctica andThe Adventures of Milo and Otis, and remains one of the highest-grossing Japanese films.[5] As of 2013[update], the film has grossed a total of¥8.2 billion in Japan.[6] In the United States, it grossed $123,959.[7]
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