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 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 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.

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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 third 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]

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References

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