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Taboo(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-12-18
65%
119 Votes
Time: 1h 40m
How am I insane?
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.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan,
France,
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies: 
Oshima Productions
Movie: Taboo
Top 10 Billed Cast
ビートたけし
Toshizo Hijikata
松田龍平
Sozaburo Kano
浅野忠信
Hyozo Tashiro
崔洋一
Isami Kondo
武田真治
Okita Sōji
寺島進
Spy
田口トモロヲ
Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
田中要次
Samurai executed by Kanô
佐藤慶
Narrator (voice)
坂上二郎
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