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Taboo is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Nagisa Ōshima released in USA on 6 october 2000 with Ryūhei Matsuda

Taboo (1999)

Gohatto

Taboo
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Released in USA 6 october 2000
Length 1h40
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Action,    Historical
Rating67% 3.3974653.3974653.3974653.3974653.397465

Gohatto (御法度) or Taboo is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is about homosexuality in the Shinsengumi during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century.

Synopsis

At the start of the movie, the young and handsome Kanō Sōzaburō (Ryuhei Matsuda) is admitted to the Shinsengumi, an elite samurai group led by Kondō Isami (Yoichi Sai) that seeks to defend the Tokugawa 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 Kanō's affections.

Actors

Ryūhei Matsuda

(Sozaburo Kano)
Takeshi Kitano

(Toshizo Hijikata)
Tadanobu Asano

(Hyozo Tashiro)
Tomorowo Taguchi

(Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa)
Shinji Takeda

(Okita Sōji)
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