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Gohatto
aka: Taboo
Japan 1999, 96 minutes
Dir. Nagisa Oshima
In Japanese with English subtitles
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Martial Arts, LGBT
Topics: Period - 1800s.
Feat. Takeshi Kitano
Aroview: Visually stunning evocation of the tensions in a samurai-training school in 1860s Japan, with Kitano playing a captain who agonises over his homoerotic feelings for a young trainee.
Filmed with a 'studio atmosphere' akin to QUERELLE, this crafts an appropriately austere thriller, with touches of deadpan humour, out of the enclosed world of martial arts training. Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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4 stars (Very Good) The highly distorted world of the bushido code is thrown into sharp relief with a steady flow of routine murders and executions. Shame, fear & jealousy take centre-stage, no time for kimono cruising. ~Regando
DVD Features
- English subtitles for the hearing impaired
- aspect ratio: 16:9
Close Relatives
- Twilight Samurai, The (2002)
- Beau Travail (1998)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
- Oshima's Outlaw Sixties (1965)
- Shogun (Mini Series) (1980)
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