Sisters of Nishijin
Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion
December 5 - 11, 2025
A father’s suicide financially imperils his family of textile workers in Yoshimura’s powerful social drama, again scripted by Kaneto Shindō and set in the Nishijin district in Kyoto.
A father’s suicide financially imperils his family of textile workers in Kōzaburō Yoshimura’s powerful social drama, again scripted by Kaneto Shindō and set in the Nishijin district in Kyoto. Movingly tracing the side effects of modernization through the struggles of a single family of traditional artisans, Sisters of Nishijin is an entrancing female-led ensemble piece (Kenji Mizoguchi’s muse Kinuyo Tanaka being perhaps the biggest name in the cast), and it is once again shot by frequent Yoshimura collaborator Kazuo Miyagawa, who himself was a year removed from shooting Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon and a year away from shooting Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
A scintillating masterpiece ... an Ozu-level-devastating ode to family and disappearing artisanal craft.”
—Jessica Kiang, Film Comment
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