The Makioka sisters = Sasame-yuki

Author

Kon Ichikawa

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

DVD ed.

Languages

In Japanese with English subtitles.

Performers

Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuko Kotegawa, Juzo Itami, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Koji Ishizaka.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Structured around the changing of the seasons, this film follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, in the years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.

Special feature: original theatrical trailer.