7.0 / 10
(32 votes)
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.
Japan
Drama
123 minutes
1971
Nagisa Ōshima
Sozosha,
Art Theatre Guild
2011
2.5
1993
7.3
1959
7.7
1951
7.0
1955
6.1
1955
7.3
1961
7.1
1949
7.5
1979
7.0
1957
6.6
1951
7.8
1957
7.6
1975
5.7
1956
7.6
1947
7.3
1951
6.4
1949
6.1
1947
7.2
1955
7.0
1951
7.5