Taboo
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- Synopsis
- After a 13-year absence, partially due to a life-threatening stroke, master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima returns to the silver screen with this revisionist samurai epic....
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- Starring
- Beat Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
- Director(s)
- Nagisa Oshima
- Distributor(s)
- New Yorker
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 101 min.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites
A further, captivating extension of Oshima's marriage of the oblique and the erotic.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites
It takes a director with exceptional talent, skill and experience to explore ambiguity in all aspects of human nature and behavior, and Oshima has created a film of resilient, downright tensile strength that ends on a satisfyingly ironic note.Read the full review
The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites
Illustrates the underlying fear that when energies that should be directed toward warfare are diverted into passion, unity is impossible.Read the full review
