"Jack Crane" <jdcrane7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns946D1E7497EC7jdcrane7yahoocom@130.133.1.4...
> I seem to remember seeing the original film version of Tanizaki's novel
> _Sasameyuki_ (_The Makioka Sisters_) in the 60's. So it's not the Kon
> Ichikawa version of '83, http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086242/ .
>
> Does anyone know the director, the year it was made, and where I could buy
> the video/DVD? Or rent it by mail in the U.S.? Japanese language only
would
> be OK, but English subtitles would be a plus so I could show it to
friends.
> I'm in the U.S. now.

1959 close enough?

http://movie.goo.ne.jp/movies/PMVWKPD26054/

Doesn't appear to have made it to DVD yet.

Director Koji Shima

The following website sells it online, but I have no idea if they will ship
to the US.

http://only-you.mitsukoshi.co.jp/daiei/syosai.asp?sel=16&icode=HTH-1308

There also appears to have been a version made in 1950. Search the goo
library (above) for details.

Good luck.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom