The Silk Road (Japanese: 敦煌, Hepburn: Tonkō)
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. The film was released in Japan and China on June 25, 1988. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. It is one of the highest-grossing Japanese films of all time. The discovered in 1900, yielding a treasure of ancient Chinese books, scrolls, drawings, paintings, and sutras (writings on Buddha). Dun-Huang was the desert city that was the last Chinese outpost on the route. The film shows amazing scenes of the desert and the cave area. Just over a thousand years ago, someone sealed up a chamber in a cave outside the oasis town of Dunhuang, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in western China. The chamber was filled with more than five hundred cubic feet of bundled manuscripts. Dunhuang manuscripts sat there, hidden, for the next nine hundred years. Since their discovery a century ago, the Dunhuang manuscripts have revo