Taboo (1999)
| Movie | |
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| German title | taboo |
| Original title | 御 法度 Gohatto |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nagisa Ōshima |
| script | Nagisa Ōshima after Ryōtarō Shiba |
| music | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| camera | Toyomichi Kurita |
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Tabu ( Japanese 御 法度 , Gohatto ) is the last feature film by Japanese director Nagisa Ōshima and was made in 1999 after a creative break of thirteen years. Ōshima, who liked to provoke by violating traditional and national myths and taboos, tells of homosexual passions and jealousies within the Shinsengumi , a samurai militia, in feudal Japan in 1865. Numerous sword martial arts scenes pervade the strip. The work is based on short stories from Ryōtarō Shiba's Shinsengumi Keppūroku .
The Spiegel review stated that the film was told “with formal rigor, beautifully composed images” , but left the impression that “both the political-historical aspects and the characters' actual love affairs were neglected.” A similar judgment Margret Köhler in the Berliner Morgenpost , Ōshima had neglected the characters because of the composition: "Gohatto is cold cinema."
Web links
- Taboo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen Locke: "Gohatto" - The love of two samurai , in: Der Spiegel , May 18, 2000
- ↑ Margret Köhler: Experiments and ready-made goods , in: Berliner Morgenpost , May 21, 2000, p. 25