The Ceremony
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | 儀式 |
| Year | 1971 |
| Country | Japan |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Nagisa Ōshima |
| Runtime | 123 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 6.8/10 (40 votes) |
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Nagisa Oshima constructs his epic parable on the contrast between meticulously staged ritual and the chaos of human emotion. The director relies on the confined space of the ancestral estate to explore how suppressed trauma and social obligation corrode the individual from within.
What lingers after the final frame is the weight of history—not as a distant lesson, but as a living, breathing force that shapes and ultimately breaks those bound to it. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
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🎭 Cast
Kenzō Kawarasaki
Sakurada Masuo
Atsuko Kaku
Sakurada Ritsuko
Atsuo Nakamura
Tachibana Terumichi
Nobuko Otowa
Sakurada Shizu
Hōsei Komatsu
Sakurada Isamu
Rokkō Toura
Sakurada Mamoru
Fumio Watanabe
Susumu
Shizue Kawarazaki
Sakurada Tomiko
Chisako Hara
Isamu's flower girl
Maki Takayama
Sakurada Kiku
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