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  • Summary: Set in 1865 in a Kyoto samurai fortress, this movie explores the homosexual attraction between young recruits and their superiors.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
  2. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. A further, captivating extension of Oshima's marriage of the oblique and the erotic.
  2. 90
    Above all, Oshima has fashioned a tale of men among men that feels familiar at first, then moves boldly into more enigmatic terrain.
  3. Reviewed by: Jared Rapfogel
    60
    A difficult, ambiguous film.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. PaulB.
    10
    Gorgeous cinematography and hypnotic sound design. Structurally perfect in its controlled ambiguity. If you liked this film, you should also check out Claire Denis' "Beau Travail." Expand
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