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TABOO (Gohatto)

By | April 2003

We meet two new recruit samurai, both slightly outside the norm. Soon rumors fill the school that the two are lovers. And then there’s a murder…

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TABOO (Gohatto)

This intriguingly beautiful film is kind of like a talky Japanese Beau Travail with its masculine beauty and military themes. We're in 1865 Kyoto, at the...

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