Gohatto (1999)

(Taboo)

Country: JAP/FR/GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Cast: 'Beat' Takeshi, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda

Synopsis:

A samurai militia in the mid-nineteenth century is at first titillated, then gradually eaten away, by its new recruit, an androgynous but paradoxically bloodthirsty eighteen-year-old merchant's son.

Review:

Ravishingly stylish hothouse melodrama with a touch of mystery.