I will first declare myself a fan of the book. As an adaptation this film is something of a hack job, and taken on its own merits borders on melodrama. The novel has been described as photo-realist and so the affected acting and melodramatic additions of the script are particularly jarring. Further, the sneering, satirical tone that hangs above many scenes implies actual disrespect of the source material. There is almost complete disregard for the characters of the novel, apart from their most basic profiles. The women are rendered feminine stereotypes via almost constant tears (totally absent from the novel), and the men tend to just shout and lust. For some reason the characters are always at each others throats. The portrayal of Yukiko is particularly shallow, and the most bizarre addition of the script is a salacious and thankfully slightly executed romance subplot between Yukiko and Teinnosuke, which seems to serve only to give male audience a sexual object. On the positive side all the technical aspects blah blah
Review of The Makioka Sisters
