The Munekata Sisters
1950 Japanese film
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Kōgo Noda
- Munekata shimai
- by Jirō Osaragi
- Hiroshi Higo
- Hideo Koi
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Hideko Takamine
- Sō Yamamura
- Ken Uehara
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Shintoho
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The Munekata Sisters (宗方姉妹, Munekata shimai) is a 1950 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Hideko Takamine.[1][2][3] It is based on a novel by Jirō Osaragi.[2][3]
Synopsis
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She supports Mimura and herself by running a bar in Tokyo, where her younger sister Mariko is also working. Setsuko had always been in love with Hiroshi, but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. Mariko too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
Cast
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Setsuko
- Hideko Takamine as Mariko
- Sō Yamamura as Ryosuke Mimura
- Ken Uehara as Hiroshi Tashiro
- Sanae Takasugi as Masako
- Fujiwara Kamatari
References
- ^ a b "宗方姉妹". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "宗方姉妹". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ a b Berra, John, ed. (2012). Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2. Intellect. p. 312. ISBN 9781841505510.
Further reading
- Thomson, David (2010). The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Completely Updated and Expanded. Knopf. pp. 733, 950. ISBN 9780307594617.
- Sharp, Jasper (2011). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. pp. 196, 221, 234. ISBN 9780810875418.
External links
- The Munekata Sisters at IMDb
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Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu
- Sword of Penitence (1927)
- Days of Youth (1929)
- I Graduated, But... (1929)
- Walk Cheerfully (1930)
- I Flunked, But... (1930)
- That Night's Wife (1930)
- The Lady and the Beard (1931)
- Tokyo Chorus (1931)
- I Was Born, But... (1932)
- Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)
- Until the Day We Meet Again (1932)
- Woman of Tokyo (1933)
- Dragnet Girl (1933)
- Passing Fancy (1933)
- A Mother Should Be Loved (1934)
- A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
- An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
- The Only Son (1936)
- What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
- Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
- There Was a Father (1942)
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
- A Hen in the Wind (1948)
- Late Spring (1949)
- The Munekata Sisters (1950)
- Early Summer (1951)
- The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- Early Spring (1956)
- Tokyo Twilight (1957)
- Equinox Flower (1958)
- Good Morning (1959)
- Floating Weeds (1959)
- Late Autumn (1960)
- The End of Summer (1961)
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
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