This is the first of three major film adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s famous novel from the 1940s, the second one being the 11959 version directed by Koji Shima, the third one being Kon Ichikawa’s The Makioa Sisters from 1983. Abe’s version stars Hideko Takamine, Hisako Yamane, Yukiko Todoroki and Ranko Hanai in the roles of the sisters. Yukiko Todoroki would also appear in Shima’s version of the film, here in the role of a different sister.
The novel (and the films) follow the lives of the wealthy Makioka family of Osaka from the autumn of 1936 to April 1941, focusing on the family’s attempts to find a husband for the third sister, Yukiko. It depicts the decline of the family’s upper-middle-class, suburban lifestyle as the specter of World War II and Allied Occupation hangs over the novel.

Yutaka Abe - Sasameyuki (1950).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 21 min
Size: 	2.81 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	704x468 ~> 704x528
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 591 kb/s
BPP: 	0.328
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/60A4F28C71CDBC8/Yutaka_Abe_-_Sasameyuki_(1950).mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:none

Many Thanks to @xrt for this copy

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