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Released
1983 · FILM

The Makioka Sisters

Directed by
Runtime
140 min
Language
JA
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

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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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Chizuko OsadaShot by Kiyoshi HasegawaScored by Kon IchikawaDesigned by Shinobu Muraki

Also known as

  • Die Töchter des Hauses Makiokade
  • The Makioka Sistersen
  • Las hermanas Makiokaes
  • Les Quatre Sœurs Makiokafr

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