Taboo (1999 film)

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Taboo
Directed by Nagisa Oshima
Produced by Masayuki Motomochi
Written by Nagisa Oshima
Ryotaro Shiba
Starring Ryuhei Matsuda
Takeshi Kitano
Tadanobu Asano
Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cinematography Toyomichi Kurita
Editing by Tomoyo Oshima
Distributed by Shochiku Films Ltd.
New Yorker Films (USA)
Release date(s) December 18, 1999 (Japan)
Running time 100 min.
Language Japanese
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Gohatto (御法度) aka Taboo (1999) is a Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It shows life in a samurai training school during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century, specifically concentrating on the issue of homosexuality in the partially closed environment.

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At the start of the movie, the young and handsome Sozaburo Kano is admitted to the Shinsengumi (新撰組), an elite samurai police group led by Isami Kondo that seeks to defend the shogunate against reformist forces. He is a very skilled swordsman, but it is his appearance that makes many of the others in the (strictly male) group, both students and superiors, attracted to him, creating tension within the group of people vying for Kano's attention.

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