Special Screening: The Makioka Sisters

8/17/11 to 8/26/11

Kon Ichikawa's 1983 film, based on a Tanizaki novel and presented in a new 35mm print, chronicles four sisters in 1930s Osaka, scions of a once-wealthy shipbuilding family who are under pressure to marry well to ease the family's debts. “A Whartonian work of compassionate nostalgia tinctured with irony . . . overwhelmed sporadically by onrushes of beauty-a rapturous collage of kimono fabric (and) the sisters' annual spring viewing of the cherry blossoms” (Village Voice).

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  • The Makioka Sisters

    • Friday, August 26 7 PM

    Kon Ichikawa (Japan, 1983). Kon Ichikawa's 1983 film, based on a Tanizaki novel and presented in a new 35mm print, chronicles four sisters in 1930s Osaka, scions of a once-wealthy shipbuilding family who are under pressure to marry well to ease the family's debts. “A rapturous collage of kimono fabric (and) the sisters' annual spring viewing of the cherry blossoms” (Village Voice).

  • The Makioka Sisters

    • Wednesday, August 17 7 PM

    Kon Ichikawa (Japan, 1983). Kon Ichikawa's 1983 film, based on a Tanizaki novel and presented in a new 35mm print, chronicles four sisters in 1930s Osaka, scions of a once-wealthy shipbuilding family who are under pressure to marry well to ease the family's debts. “A rapturous collage of kimono fabric (and) the sisters' annual spring viewing of the cherry blossoms” (Village Voice).