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Original title: Gohatto
Release Date
• USA: Nov 17, 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 20, 2002
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country France, UK, Japan
Production Companies
BS Asahi, Bac Films, Canal+, Eisei Gekijo, Imagica Corp., Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd., Oshima Productions, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Shochiku Films Ltd.
Studio Bac Films, BS Asahi, Canal Plus, Eisei Gekijo Company, Imagica, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Company, Recorded Picture Company, Shochiku
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Other Titles
• Taboo (Gohatto)
• Gohatto (1999)
• Taboo
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Genre: Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Military, Experimental, Revenge, Martial Arts, Period Piece, Disturbing, Political, Cult Classic
Plot: Widely regarded as the greatest living Japanese director as well as one of the film world's foremost hierophants of transgression, Nagisa Oshima returns from a long hiatus with a film worthy of his reputation. Set in 1865 during the waning days of the Tokugawa shogunate, it focuses on an exotic young male beauty, Kano (Ryuhei Matsuda), who has recently been recruited by the strict Shinsengumi samurai militia. He quickly becomes the lover of another recruit, Hyozo Tashiro (Tadanobu Asano), and, although homosexuality is officially verboten, Commander Kondo (Yoichi Sai) seems to have adopted a don't-ask don't-tell policy. He has little choice, since the teenage wraith soon becomes the prime object of desire for half the militia. Jealousy threatens to erode the company's morale as the samurai engage in kendo swordplay for a shard of attention from the impassive Kano. Captain Hijikata (Takeshi Kitano), the most humane and aware of the samurai, struggles to maintain discipline while fighting against his own attraction to the youth. TABOO is a fascinatingly ambiguous exploration of the uncontrollable force of sexuality in a highly repressive military environment. The ravishingly otherworldly art direction by Yoshinobu Nishioka and insistently minimal score by Ryuichi Sakamoto are
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Nagisa Oshima
In the Realm of the Senses, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Empire of Passion |
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Nagisa Oshima
Senba zuru, In the Realm of the Senses, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence |
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