The Makioka Sisters
Drama, Romance
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1983
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This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
140 min
Release date:
21 May 1983
Country:
JP
Languages:
Japanese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
5 wins & 9 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Makes the melodramatic seem positively majestic.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
3 May 2011
fresh:
The Makioka Sisters is a Whartonian work of compassionate nostalgia tinctured with irony.
– Nick Pinkerton,
Village Voice,
3 May 2011
fresh:
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.
– Pat Graham,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000