Sasame-yuki (Fine Snow)(Hosone yuki)(The Makioka Sisters)

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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 recreating the Golden Age of the Japanese Film, another world gone. A four season chronicle of Jane Austensian, Henry Jamesian, Anton Chekhovian incident, this was the director's dream for a quarter-century, and he brought to it his typically lush pictorialism and insidious black humor. Among the terrific ensemble cast, Keiko Kishi was midway through a six-decade career that included starring for Ozu and Kobayashi (and with Robert Mitchum); while Juzo Itami, multi-awarded as her husband, was about to begin a new one as director of The Funeral, Tampopo, and A Taxing Woman. -- (C) Film Forum

Cast

Keiko Kishi
as Tsuruko
Yoshiko Sakuma
as Sachiko
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as Yukiko
Yûko Kotegawa
as Taeko
Juzo Itami
as Tatsuo
Koji Ishizaka
as Teinosuke
Motoshi Egi
as Higashidani
Jun Hamamura
as Otokichi
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
as Hashidera
Kobatcho Katsura
as Okubata
Ittoku Kishibe
as Itakura
Shoji Kobayashi
as Mr. Jimba
Kazuyo Kozaka
as Nomura
Kuniko Miyake
as Aunt Tominaga
Akemi Negishi
as Mrs. Shimozuma
Kazunga Tsuji
as Miyoshi
Fujio Tsuneda
as Igarashi
Michiyo Yokoyama
as Itani
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Audience Reviews for Sasame-yuki (Fine Snow)(Hosone yuki)(The Makioka Sisters)

  • May 15, 2011
    It is Osaka in 1938. Yukiko(Sayuri Yoshinaga) is inquiring about the state of the money left to her by her late parents which her older sister Sachiko(Yoshiko Sakuma) insists was meant to be her dowry. The youngest sister Taeko(Yuko Kotegawa) has similar concerns but is doing quite well with her doll business. Then, Tsuruko(Keiko Kishi), the eldest sister, arrives to inform them that Yukiko's latest suitor is no good since apparently his mother is mentally unwell. At least, Teinosuke(Koji Ishizaka), Sachiko's husband, likes the way she eats. All of that having been settled, the family repairs outside to look at the cherry blossoms. 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?
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