- Taboo (1999 film)
Infobox_Film
name = Taboo
director =Nagisa Ōshima
producer =Masayuki Motomochi
writer =Nagisa Ōshima Ryotaro Shiba
starring =Ryuhei Matsuda Takeshi Kitano Tadanobu Asano
music =Ryuichi Sakamoto
cinematography =Toyomichi Kurita
editing =Tomoyo Oshima
distributor =Shochiku Films Ltd. New Yorker Films (USA)
released = flagicon|JapanDecember 18 ,1999
flagicon|FranceMay 17 ,2000
runtime = 100 minutes
country = flagcountry|Japan
language = Japanese
amg_id = 1:201749
imdb_id = 0213682
nihongo|"Taboo"|御法度|Gohatto (1999) is aJapan ese film directed byNagisa Ōshima . It shows life in asamurai training school during the "bakumatsu" period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century, specifically concentrating on the issue ofhomosexuality in theshudō tradition in the partially-closed environment.Plot summary
At the start of the movie, the young and handsome Sozaburo Kano is admitted to the
Shinsengumi (新撰組), an elite samurai police group led byIsami Kondo that seeks to defend the shogunate against reformist forces. He is a very skilled swordsman, but it is his appearance that makes many of the others in the (strictly male) group, both students and superiors, attracted to him, creating tension within the group of people vying for Kano's attention.Cast
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Takeshi Kitano - Vice-CommanderHijikata Toshizo
*Ryuhei Matsuda - Kano Sozaburo
*Shinji Takeda - CaptainOkita Sōji
*Tadanobu Asano - Hyozo Tashiro
*Yoichi Sai - CommanderKondo Isami
*Koji Matoba - Sugano Heibei
*Masa Tomizu - InspectorYamazaki Susumu
*Masato Ibu - Military AdvisorIto Koshitaro Awards
*It was nominated for the
Palme d'Or at the 2000Cannes Film Festival , "Dancer in the Dark " won.
*It won four awards at the 2000Blue Ribbon Awards :
**Best Director:Nagisa Ōshima
**Best Film: Nagisa Ōshima
**Best New Actor:Ryuhei Matsuda
**Best Supporting Actor:Shinji Takeda
*Ryuhei Matsuda won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Newcomer of the Year, the film was nominated in nine other categories.
*Tadanobu Asano won the Best Supporting Actor category at the 2000Hochi Film Awards .
*Ryuhei Matsuda won the Best New Actor category of the 2001Kinema Junpo Awards .
*Ryuhei Matsuda won the 2001Yokohama Film Festival prize for Best New Talent.External links
*imdb title|0213682|Gohatto
*cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1999/dw003220.htm|title=御法度 ("Gohatto")|accessdate=2007-07-19|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database ources
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