Fresh
Makes the melodramatic seem positively majestic.
David Fear, Time Out New York
The Makioka Sisters
1983 · 2h 20m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Kon Ichikawa
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The Makioka Sisters
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Kon Ichikawa Director
- Keiko Kishi as Tsuruko Makioka
- Yoshiko Sakuma as Sachiko Makioka
- Sayuri Yoshinaga as Yukiko Makioka
- Yuko Kotegawa as Taeko Makioka
- Koji Ishizaka as Teinosuke
- Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Hashidera
- Ittoku Kishibe as Itakura
- Jūzō Itami as Tatsuo
- Takenori Emoto as Higashiya
- Jun Hamamura as Otokichi
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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Tomatometer
Fresh
The Makioka Sisters is a Whartonian work of compassionate nostalgia tinctured with irony.
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
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
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