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- 2000
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 40 m
- 2000
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Set in 1865 in a Kyoto samurai fortress, this movie explores the homosexual attraction between young recruits and their superiors.
Directed By: Nagisa Ôshima
Written By: Ryôtarô Shiba, Nagisa Ôshima
- 2000
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 40 m
- 2000
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 40 m
Taboo
75
6.6
Summary Set in 1865 in a Kyoto samurai fortress, this movie explores the homosexual attraction between young recruits and their superiors.
Directed By: Nagisa Ôshima
Written By: Ryôtarô Shiba, Nagisa Ôshima
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
75
94% Positive
16 Reviews
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6% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
75
94% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A further, captivating extension of Oshima's marriage of the oblique and the erotic.
Emblematic of the man's (Oshima) career: ironic, ambiguous, sublime.
An action film at once baroque and austere, hypnotic and opaque.
Oshima, directing his first film in 14 years, has found an actor with the physical attributes to play the character and seems content to leave it at that; his camera regards Sozaburo as an object of beauty but hardly seems to engage him.
Ripe with homoeroticism, but also with what the director — who made the film after recovering from a stroke a few years back — calls "the scent of murder."
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
6.6
60% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
25% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
6.6
60% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
25% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
15% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
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Awards
Awards of the Japanese Academy
• 1 Win & 10 Nominations
Blue Ribbon Awards
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Mainichi Film Concours
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
