The Silk Road (film)

The Silk Road
The Silk Road
	Masaru Satō
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	June 25, 1988
Running time	143 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥8.2 billion (Japan) ; $123,959 (USA)

The Silk Road (

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

.

The film was released in Japan and China on June 25, 1988.

highest-grossing Japanese films

of all time.

Cast

Xi Xia

empire

Kōichi Satō as Zhao Xingde, a student of Zhu Wangli
Anna Nakagawa as Tsurpia, a princess of a Uyghur kingdom
Tsunehiko Watase as Li Yuanhao, the Xi Xia emperor
Takahiro Tamura as Tsao Yanhui

Reception

The Silk Road was the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1988, earning ¥4.5 billion in distribution income that year.

highest-grossing Japanese film up until then, after Antarctica and The Adventures of Milo and Otis, and remains one of the highest-grossing Japanese films.^[5] As of 2013, the film has grossed a total of ¥8.2 billion in Japan.^[6] In the United States, it grossed $123,959.^[7]

References

IMDb

Maoyan
(in Chinese). Retrieved 7 May 2020.

Internet Movie Database
. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
^ "Kako haikyū shūnyū jōi sakuhin 1988-nen" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 5 February 2011.

^ "邦画興行収入ランキング". SF MOVIE DataBank (in Japanese). General Works. 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2019.

^ "歴代ランキング" [All-time box office top 100]. CINEMAランキング通信. Kogyo Tsushinka. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

^ "«Шелковый путь» (Tonkô, 1988)". Kinopoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 20 March 2022.

Bibliography

敦煌 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-12.

"TON KO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-05-12.

敦煌 (in Japanese). walkerplus.com. Retrieved 2009-05-12.

敦煌(1988) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-05-08.

"Variety Japan" 敦煌 (in Japanese). Variety Japan. Retrieved 2009-05-12.

External links

Tonkô at
IMDb

The Silk Road at AllMovie

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Films directed by Junya Sato

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Golgo 13 (1973)

The Bullet Train (1975)

Kimi yo Fundo no Kawa o Watare (1976)

Proof of the Man (1977)

Never Give Up (1978)

The Go Masters (1983)

Theater of Life (1983)

The Silk Road (1988)

Dreams of Russia (1992)

Yamato (2005)

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Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)

Floating Clouds (1955)

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The Rice People
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The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Kiku to Isamu (1959)

Her Brother (1960)

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Foundry Town (1962)

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Muddy River (1981)

Fall Guy (1982)

International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1983)

MacArthur's Children (1984)

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Dotsuitarunen (1989)

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[1] IMDb

[2] Maoyan
(in Chinese). Retrieved 7 May 2020.

[3] Internet Movie Database
. Retrieved 2009-05-05.

[4] "Kako haikyū shūnyū jōi sakuhin 1988-nen" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 5 February 2011.

[databank-5] "邦画興行収入ランキング". SF MOVIE DataBank (in Japanese). General Works. 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2019.

[6] "歴代ランキング" [All-time box office top 100]. CINEMAランキング通信. Kogyo Tsushinka. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

[7] "«Шелковый путь» (Tonkô, 1988)". Kinopoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 20 March 2022.

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