Samurai Rebellion

Winner
FIPRESCI Prize ~ Best Film
Venice Film Festival
As extreme a samurai film as I've seen in both senses (the ethics and the violence), and one of the best.

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Samurai Rebellion

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Not Rated
Genre
Drama, Repertory
Runtime
123
Language
Japanese
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Cast
Toshiro Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gô Katô
Awards:
Winner, FIPRESCI Prize ~ Best Film, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Michael Sragow, New Yorker

Set in the early eighteenth century, Masaki Kobayashi’s stately yet subversive epic from 1967 dramatizes one warrior’s personal revolution with black-and-white images that establish and then smash a courtly geometry. Toshiro Mifune spends the first half of the film in a state of impacted emotion, as ...

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