Taboo
Alternative title: Gohatto

Directed by Nagisa Ôshima

A new samurai militia member becomes the object of desire, testing the unit's discipline.
Based on the novel Shinsengumi Keppūroku by Ryōtarō Shiba. Buy the book on Amazon.
Nagisa Oshima’s Taboo is a visually elegant samurai drama in which desire quietly destabilises a rigid male world. The pacing is deliberately cool, but the beautiful cinematography, restrained performances and atmosphere of suppressed attraction give the film a hypnotic tension.

Taboo

Alternative title: Gohatto

Directed by Nagisa Ôshima

A new samurai militia member becomes the object of desire, testing the unit's discipline.
Based on the novel Shinsengumi Keppūroku by Ryōtarō Shiba. Buy the book on Amazon.

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Nagisa Oshima’s Taboo is a visually elegant samurai drama in which desire quietly destabilises a rigid male world. The pacing is deliberately cool, but the beautiful cinematography, restrained performances and atmosphere of suppressed attraction give the film a hypnotic tension.