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The two oldest of four siblings 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.

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Title	The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Runtime	2 hr. 20 min.
Director	Kon Ichikawa
Country	Japan
Studio	Criterion Collection
Genres	Drama \| Foreign Language
Description	This lyrical adaptation of the beloved novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for director Kon Ichikawa. Structured around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four siblings 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. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors.

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The kimonos the women wear in this film are part of their family's patrimony. At one point the eldest sister calculates the value of their kimono collection in the millions of pre-war yen.

M M, if you notice early in the film when the four sisters are walking around the sakura blossoms, a group of three drably dressed on-lookers become very excited by their presence. They react to them as though they are a kind of a fabulous, rarely-seen flowers. This is what the director was trying to say by having the women always dressed up in fabulous kimonos--that these women are like flowers from another time. See 1 other reply

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Incredible pre-war take on colliding mores and social expectations. Every gesture, every word, every single scene is camouflage for deeper meanings and agendas.

Even if you don't speak a word of Japanese you'll recognize tiny details like how Taeko transforms from sweet "youngest" daughter into hard-nosed modern woman of the world from her voice alone. Watch Yukiko in guise of perfectly modest, passive traditional Japanese woman control her fate in a masterful blend of innocence and complete confidence.

This film takes my breath away.

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Lots of similarities to Little Women by Alcott...the stress of war time doesn't show very much and it lacks emotion in a lot of respects, but it's for an Japanese audience that would extrapolate the subtle nuances of each situation...still I'd give the film as a while a C+...passes well, not good or par. There's lots of historical revisionism here...the kimonos were rarely that nice back in the 1930's, and the mens suits were much too modern. The traditional houses were also much too modern...but they filmed in ugly "western" concrete buildings to make it seem like it was the urban 1930's. Portrayal of Japan in the 1930's: D+...it was just off in so many little ways.

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