Taboo
Sign in to save, also known as Taboo, is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. Its subject is homosexuality in the Shinsengumi during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century. The production was Õshima's final film before his death, thirteen years after Gohatto's premiere.
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6.6Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Released: 1999-12-18100 minDir: Nagisa ŌshimaDrama, History, Thriller
Cast
- Takeshi Kitano as Toshizo Hijikata
- Ryuhei Matsuda as Sozaburo Kano
- Tadanobu Asano as Hyozo Tashiro
- Yōichi Sai as Isami Kondo
- Shinji Takeda as Okita Sōji
- Susumu Terajima as Spy
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Gohatto
- Film.image
- Gohatto-1999-poster.jpg
- Film.director
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Film.producer
- Masayuki Motomochi
- Film.writer
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Film.starring
- Ryuhei MatsudaTakeshi KitanoTadanobu Asano
- Film.music
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Film.cinematography
- Toyomichi Kurita
- Film.editing
- Tomoyo Ōshima
- Film.distributor
- ShochikuNew Yorker Films (USA)
- Film.runtime
- 100 minutes
- Film.country
- Japan
- Film.language
- Japanese
Key dates
- Published
- 18 December 1999
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Director
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Screenwriter
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Cast member
- Yoshiaki Fujiwara
- Composer
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Cinematographer
- Toyomichi Kurita
- Narrative location
- Kyoto
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, also known as Taboo, is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. Its subject is homosexuality in the Shinsengumi during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century. The production was Õshima's final film before his death, thirteen years after Gohatto's premiere.
==Plot== At the start of the movie, the young and handsome Kanō Sōzaburō (Ryuhei Matsuda) is admitted to the Shinsengumi, an elite samurai group led by Kondō Isami (Yoichi Sai) that seeks to defend the Tokugawa shogunate against reformist forces. He is a very skilled swordsman, but it is his appearance that makes many of the others in the (strictly male) group, both students and superiors, attracted to him, creating tension within the group of people vying for Kanō's affections.