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The Ceremony
JAPAN · 1971

The Ceremony

Nagisa Oshima
dysfunctional family patriarchy ancestral traditions dying traditions post war japan
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Synopsis

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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