The Munekata Sisters (1950)

Highly Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 宗方姉妹

Director: Ozu Yasujirō

Writers: Noda Kōgo, Ozu Yasujirō, Osaragi Jiro

Cinematographer: Ohara Joji

Composer: Saitō Ichirō

Cast: Tanaka Kinuyo, Takamine Hideko, Uehara Ken, Takasugi Sanae, Ryū Chishū, Yamamura Sō, Hori Yuji

In Ozu’s affecting family drama, which plays on romantic fiction conventions and expectations, a decidedly naïve and rather immature young woman contrives to set up her elder sister with her kindly, mild mannered first love, despite the fact that she is already married, albeit to a world-weary, unemployed drunk. Iain.Stott