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Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji is a film of genre Drama with Sayuri Yoshinaga
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji (2001)
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Sennen no Koi — Hikaru Genji monogatari (千年の恋 ひかる源氏物語, literally Thousand Years of Love — the Tale of shining Genji) is a 2001 Japanese movie, loosely based on the classical work of Heian-period Japanese literature, The Tale of Genji, directed by Tonkō Horikawa and written by Akira Hayasaka.
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