
Our Little Sister(2015)
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.


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.

Keiko Kishi
Tsuruko Makioka

Yoshiko Sakuma
Sachiko Makioka

Sayuri Yoshinaga
Yukiko Makioka

Yuko Kotegawa
Taeko Makioka

Koji Ishizaka
Teinosuke

Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Hashidera

Ittoku Kishibe
Itakura

Jūzō Itami
Tatsuo
Takenori Emoto
Higashiya

Jun Hamamura
Otokichi
The Makioka Sisters is a drama, romance film released in 1983 exploring themes of based on novel or book, family relationships, slice of life, osaka, japan, marriage broker, sisterhood. Directed by Kon Ichikawa, it stars Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga. 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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