Taboo (1999)
Gohatto
How am I insane?
100 min
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering on a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
- Release date
- December 18, 1999
- Country of origin
- Japan
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Trailer
Cast
- Takeshi Kitano as Captain Toshizo Hijikata
- Ryûhei Matsuda as Samurai Sozaburo Kano
- Tadanobu Asano as Samurai Hyozo Tashiro
- Yōichi Sai as Commander Isami Kondo
- Shinji Takeda as Lieutenant Soji Okita
- Susumu Terajima as Spy
- Tomoroo Taguchi as Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
- Yôji Tanaka as Samurai executed by Kanô
- Kei Satō as Narrator (voice)
- Jirô Sakagami as Lieutenant Genzaburo Inoue
- Yoshiaki Fujiwara
- Shun Sugata
- Kazuko Yoshiyuki
- Mami Nakamura
- Makoto Togashi
- Chikako Aoyama
- Kôji Matoba as Samurai Heibei Sugano
- Masatô Ibu as Officer Koshitaro Ito
- Daisuke Iijima
- Yōichi Iijima
- Yôzaburô Itô
- Masa Tommies as Inspector Jo Yamazaki
- Zakoba Katsura as Wachigaiya
Crew
- Nagisa Ōshima · Director
- Ryôtarô Shiba · Writer
- Nagisa Ōshima · Writer
- Shigehiro Nakagawa · Producer
- Eiko Oshima · Producer
- Kazuo Shimizu · Producer
- Ryūichi Sakamoto · Composer
- Toyomichi Kurita · Cinematographer
- Tomoyo Ôshima · Editor
- Yoshinobu Nishioka · Production designer