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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