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The Princess Gohime
JAPAN · 1992

The Princess Gohime

Hiroshi Teshigahara
tea ceremony political power honor and loyalty grief and mourning defiance against tyranny
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Synopsis

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.

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