A few years before World War II, in the traditional Osaka four upper-class women trying to preserve a form of ancestral life it is about to disappear. The Makioka sisters is the moving portrait, but implacable, a Japanese family and society that were facing the abyss of modernity. Full of beautiful and delicate pictures of the customs of the Japanese aristocracy, captures both social conventions and the private anguish of its protagonists.
The Makioka, Junichiro Tanizaki fundamental work of sisters is the result of a slow and thoughtful writing, in which he sought refuge from the catastrophe of war, recreating a sumptuous and exquisite world with nostalgia for a time and happiness that were fading away.