Taboo

Taboo

How am I insane?

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Release Date

12/18/1999

Runtime

100 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

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Revenue

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A claustrophobic chamber piece set within rigid samurai hierarchy, where simmering homoerotic tension and jealousy threaten to explode into violence. The film slowly tightens the psychological screws on its characters as competing desires collide in an enclosed world governed by code and hierarchy.

Mood

TenseDread-soakedClaustrophobicMelancholic

Themes

ObsessionIdentityPower

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Single location

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Sexual content

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