Changing seasons and changing times converge in this loving portrait of one upper-class Japanese family of the 1930s from acclaimed director Kon Ichikawa ("The Burmese Harp," 1957). The four daughters of a once-prosperous family meet yearly in Kyoto to look at the cherry blossoms and deal with their differences. Stern Tsuroko insists on maintaining traditional customs, which particularly irks the youngest, emancipated Taeko, who's forbidden to marry until older sister Yukiko, a melancholy spinster, findsa husband. Includes critical essay.
Changing seasons and changing times converge in this loving portrait of one upper-class Japanese family of the 1930s from acclaimed director Kon Ichikawa ("The Burmese Harp," 1957). The four daughters of a once-prosperous family meet yearly in Kyoto to look at the cherry blossoms and deal with their differences. Stern Tsuroko insists on maintaining traditional customs, which particularly irks the youngest, emancipated Taeko, who's forbidden to marry until older sister Yukiko, a melancholy spinster, findsa husband. Includes critical essay.
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