| The Silk Road | |
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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) |
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.
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 the 48th highest-grossing Japanese film of all time.
- ^ Infobox data from 敦煌 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-12. and Dun-Huang (1988) at IMDb
- ^ "敦煌". Maoyan (in Chinese). Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ "Awards for Dun-Huang (1988)" (in Japanese). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-05.