Taboo (1999)
1h 40m
Running Time
December 18, 1999Release Date
Plot.
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 around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Takeshi Kitano
Captain Toshizo Hijikata
Ryuhei Matsuda
Samurai Sozaburo Kano
Shinji Takeda
Lieutenant Soji Okita
Tadanobu Asano
Samurai Hyozo Tashiro
Yoichi Sai
Commander Isami Kondo
Susumu Terajima
Spy
Tomorowo Taguchi
Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
Jiro Sakagami
Lieutenant Genzaburo Inoue
Yoji Tanaka
Samurai executed by Kanô
Koji Matoba
Samurai Heibei Sugano
Masa Tommies
Inspector Jo Yamazaki
Kei Satō
Narrator (voice)
Masatō Ibu
Officer Koshitaro Ito
Nagisa Ōshima
Director
Ryōtarō Shiba
Writer
Shigehiro Nakagawa
Producer
Eiko Ōshima
Producer
Kazuo Shimizu
Producer
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Composer
Toyomichi Kurita
Cinematographer
Tomoyo Ōshima
Editor
Yoshinobu Nishioka
ProductionDesigner
Jeremy Thomas
Executive Producer
Emi Wada
Costume Design
Jean Labadie
Executive Producer
Nobuyoshi Otani
Executive Producer
Kunio Ando
Sound
Kenji Shibasaki
Sound Effects Editor
Tomoko Kurata
Assistant Production Design
Shōichi Yasuda
Set Decoration
Eri Yamamoto
Assistant Production Design
Kunio Yamasaki
Makeup Artist
Mitsuyo Takasaki
Makeup Artist
Keiko Kawamoto
Sound Effects Editor
Daisuke Iijima
Katsura Zakoba
Makoto Togashi
Mami Nakamura
Uno Kanda
Takashi Odajima
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 18, 1999
Original Name御法度
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Filming LocationsJapan
Genres
Wiki.
Gohatto (御法度), also known as Taboo, is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. Its subject is homosexuality in the Shinsengumi during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century.
The production was Õshima's final film before his death, thirteen years after Gohatto's premiere.
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