Sasame-yuki (Fine Snow)(Hosone yuki)(The Makioka Sisters) (1983)
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Heads turn as beautiful women in dazzling kimono glide through a cascade of cherry blossoms against a setting sun. Osaka, 1938, and four daughters of an old merchant family face all unknowing the end of a gentler way of life. Adapted from the classic novel by Junichiro Tanizaki - written as Japan burned around him during the War, even as he determined to preserve forever in his art a world he knew already lost - with director Kon Ichikawa (Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain, etc., etc.) himself
Dec 30, 1983 Wide
Jun 13, 2011
Criterion Collection
Cast
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Keiko Kishi
Tsuruko -
Yoshiko Sakuma
Sachiko -
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Yukiko -
Yûko Kotegawa
Taeko -
Juzo Itami
Tatsuo -
Koji Ishizaka
Teinosuke -
Motoshi Egi
Higashidani -
Jun Hamamura
Otokichi -
Kobatcho Katsura
Okubata -
Ittoku Kishibe
Itakura -
Shoji Kobayashi
Mr. Jimba -
Kuniko Miyake
Aunt Tominaga -
Akemi Negishi
Mrs. Shimozuma -
Fujio Tsuneda
Igarashi -
Kazunga Tsuji
Miyoshi -
Kazuyo Kozaka
Nomura -
Michiyo Yokoyama
Itani -
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Hashidera
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Makes the melodramatic seem positively majestic.
Top CriticThe Makioka Sisters is a Whartonian work of compassionate nostalgia tinctured with irony.
Ichikawa has always been a difficult director to pin down. His work here seems to inhabit a static, novelistic space, but the final result is personal and elegantly filled out.
Though the story unfurls slowly, Ichikawa directs with a lively step.
Well acted by a strong ensemble, The Makioka Sisters quietly, steadily (and almost imperceptibly as it happens) endears us to these women, investing us in their varied fates. [Blu-ray]
Even if it's sorely lacking in supplementary materials, Criterion's DVD of The Makioka Sisters is still worth a look for the gloriously restored transfer of Ichikawa's wonderful melodrama.
A full-fledged exercise in the sensuality of genetic similarity and different shades of family sensibility.
Offers a fascinating look at Japanese tradition under the onslaught of modernism in a story of class consciouness and marriage.
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Foreign Titles
- The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) (DE)
- The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) (UK)
Directed by Kon Ichikawa, "The Makioka Sisters" is an engaging, if overlong, chamber piece. To be fair, after at least two or three endings, everything clicks together with the last scene, encapsulating all that has gone before. This is set in a heremetically sealed world where the cracks are starting to show, not only with Taeko's modern ways in contrast to Yukiko's traditional manners, but also with the advent of several technologies including photography, telephones, airplanes and the radio that are meant to bring people closer together but are instead separating them even further, with the family suffering as a result. Then there is war which is the greatest harbinger of change, whose horrors are kept at a distance(more on this later) but whose effect is being felt through shortages. It also probably explains why it is so hard to find Yukiko a match, as most of the potential partners are in their 40's. And what does it say about a man at that age who has not married yet in a culture that so values marriage?