Taboo

1999, Movie, 1h 40min

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

Country: United Kingdom,France,Japan

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6.8

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7.0

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Critic David Parkinson

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...a film about the passing of the samurai, loyalty, outward appearance and the need for thought before action.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marrit Ingman

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...is plenty bizarre, even darkly comic at times. But it's also elegant and mannered, with deliberately opaque, arm's-length characterizations and much of the glossy restraint one expects to find in a more conventional period piece.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle