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Drama
Set 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.
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"A spare and cruel drama about sex and violence within the ranks of the samurai." | ||
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"'Taboo' is not an entirely successful film, but it isn't boring. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" | ||
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"A further, captivating extension of Oshima's marriage of the oblique and the erotic." | ||
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"It takes a director with exceptional talent, skill and experience to explore ambiguity in all aspects of human nature and behavior" | ||
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"Illustrates the underlying fear that when energies that should be directed toward warfare are diverted into passion, unity is impossible." | ||
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"An action film at once baroque and austere, hypnotic and opaque." | ||
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"Bizarre, even darkly comic at times. But it's also elegant and mannered." |
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