The Munekata Sisters
Original title: Munekata shimai
1950 · 1 h 52 min
Yasujiro OzuCast
Kinuyo Tanaka 
Hideko Takamine 
Ken Uehara 
Sanae Takasugi 
Chishū Ryū 
Sō Yamamura
Credits
Written by: 
Kōgo Noda
Plot
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed man, and her sister Mariko is modern and free.
Sinekatalog’s take
Yasujiro Ozu's drama, with Kinuyo Tanaka and Hideko Takamine, is quiet and sharp, about tradition and change in postwar Japan.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.4 / 10 (1,519 votes)
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