JAPAN · 1971

The Ceremony

Nagisa Oshima
Japanese New Wave dysfunctional family patriarchy ancestral traditions dying traditions post war japan
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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.

Year1971
CountryJapan
DirectorNagisa Oshima
The Ceremony poster

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