Rikyu

Japan 1989, 135 minutes
Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
In Japanese with English subtitles
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Action/Adventure, Drama

Topics: Period - 1500s.

Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Aroview: A unique dramatic meditation on the symbolic qualities of the Japanese tea ceremony, set around a Buddhist priest and the ruling Shogun of Japan in the distant 1500s.

Permeated with an acute sense of the nuance and gracefulness of feudal court politics, this work from the reclusive dir. of WOMAN OF THE DUNES was his first in 17 years. Although langourous in pace, this small wonder of philosophical cinema is all the better for being sipped slowly.