Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji was released on December 15, 2001.

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji was directed by Tonkô Horikawa.

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji has a runtime of 2h 23m.

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji was produced by Keita Senoo, Riuko Tominaga, Junichi Kimura, Nobuyuki Tohya, Hiroshi Furukawa, 依田正和.

Based on the ancient Japanese "Tale of Genji", this film set in 900 AD tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins with the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, and moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young "wives in waiting." It is dotted throughout with, and actually composed mainly of one the fictional stories she wrote "The Tale of Genji." Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love with his stepmother, who bears his son. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him. Genji is played by an actress from the all-female Takarazuka theatre. The two interrelating stories are also interrupted occasionally by phantasmic musical clips from past Japanese teen-idol Seiko Matsuda.

The key characters in Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji are Murasaki Shikibu (Sayuri Yoshinaga), Hikaru Genji (Yuki Amami), Toru Kazama.

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji is a Drama, Romance, Biography film.

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji has an audience rating of 6.7 out of 10.

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji has made $5.3M at the box office.