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Taboo

Original title: 御法度

How am I insane?

1999 · NR · 1h 40m

Directed by Nagisa Ōshima

6.6

TMDB audience score
132 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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 on 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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Cast

  • Takeshi Kitano
    Toshizo Hijikata

  • Ryuhei Matsuda
    Sozaburo Kano

  • Tadanobu Asano
    Hyozo Tashiro

  • Yōichi Sai
    Isami Kondo

  • Shinji Takeda
    Okita Sōji

  • Susumu Terajima
    Spy

  • Tomorowo Taguchi
    Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa

  • Yoji Tanaka
    Samurai executed by Kanô

  • Kei Satō
    Narrator (voice)

  • Jiro Sakagami

  • Eve Masatoh

  • Yoshiaki Fujiwara

  • Kenichi Urata

  • Shun Sugata

  • Yuji Yamazaki

  • Usaburo Oshima

  • Takashi Odajima

  • Uno Kanda