Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Dramaromantic rivalrypatriarchydysfunctional familypost war japandying traditionstraditional familycousins in loveancestral traditionsjapanese traditionsuicide by poisonfamily rivalry
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Cast
- Kenzō KawarasakiSakurada Masuo
- Atsuko KakuSakurada Ritsuko
- Atsuo NakamuraTachibana Terumichi
- Nobuko OtowaSakurada Shizu
- Hōsei KomatsuSakurada Isamu
- Rokkō TouraSakurada Mamoru
- Fumio WatanabeSusumu
- Shizue KawarazakiSakurada Tomiko
- Chisako HaraIsamu's flower girl
- Maki TakayamaSakurada Kiku
Crew
- Nagisa ŌshimaDirector
- Mamoru SasakiScreenplay
- Nagisa ŌshimaScreenplay
- Tsutomu TamuraScreenplay
- Tōichirō NarushimaDirector of Photography
- Tōru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
- Keiichi UraokaEditor
- Kinshirō KuzuiProducer
- Takuji YamaguchiProducer
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