The Silk Road (film)

The Silk Road
Directed byJunya Satō[1]
Written byJunya Satō
Takeshi Yoshida
Based onTun-Huang
by Yasushi Inoue
Produced byKazuo Haruna
Atsushi Takeda
Yoshihiro Yûki
StarringToshiyuki Nishida
CinematographyAkira Shiizuka
Edited byAkira Suzuki
Music byMasaru Satō
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • June 25, 1988 (1988-06-25)
Running time
143 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
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.

  1. ^ Infobox data from 敦煌 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-12. and Dun-Huang (1988) at IMDb
  2. ^ "敦煌". Maoyan (in Chinese). Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Awards for Dun-Huang (1988)" (in Japanese). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-05.