The Ceremony
Gishiki
1971, Film, 123 min, Comedy, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 67
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.
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Cast
- Kenzō Kawarasaki as Sakurada Masuo
- Atsuko Kaku as Sakurada Ritsuko
- Atsuo Nakamura as Tachibana Terumichi
- Kiyoshi Tsuchiya as Sakurada Tadashi
- Nobuko Otowa as Sakurada Shizu
- Hōsei Komatsu as Sakurada Isamu
- Rokkô Toura as Sakurada Mori
- Fumio Watanabe as Sakurada Shun
- Shizue Kawarazaki as Sakurada Tomiko
- Chisako Hara as Isamu's flower girl
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