Sasameyuki [videorecording] : [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Toho Co. Ltd. ; a Tōhō production ; executive producers Tomoyuki Tanaka and Kon Ichikawa ; based on the story by Junʼichirō Tanizaki ; screenplay by Kon Ichikawa and Shinya Hidaka ; directed by Kon Ichikawa.

Japan, 1938. War is looming on the horizon, but the Makioka sisters are far more concerned with their domestic troubles. The sisters have taken over their family's kimono manufacturing business in Osaka, and are well off, traveling together to view the changing of the seasons--cherry blossoms i...

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Corporate Authors:	Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Janus Films, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors:	Tanaka, Tomoyuki, 1910-1997 (Producer), Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008 (Screenwriter, Director, Producer), Hidaka, Shinʼya (Screenwriter), Sakuma, Yoshiko, 1939- (Actor), Yoshinaga, Sayuri, 1945- (Actor), Kotegawa, Yūko, 1959- (Actor), Itami, Jūzō, 1933-1997 (Actor), Hosokawa, Toshiyuki (Actor), Ishizaka, Kōji, 1941- (Actor), Kishi, Keiko (Actor), Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 1886-1965
Other title:	Sasameyuki (Motion picture) Title in English subtitles: Sasameyuki - Fine snow : the Makioka sisters. Title on disc label and container: Makioka sisters. Sasame-yuki.
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese English
Published:	Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, ©2011.
Edition:	Widescreen.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 567.
Subjects:	Sisters > Drama. Families > Drama. Courtship > Drama. Young women > Drama. Arranged marriage > Drama. Family-owned business enterprises > Drama. Motion pictures, Japanese. Japan > Social life and customs > Drama. Japan > Drama. Japanese literature > Film adaptations. Film adaptations. Fiction films. Feature films. Historical films.