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Overview

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8.0/10   168 votes
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Director:
Nagisa Oshima
Writers:
Nagisa Oshima (writer)
Mamoru Sasaki (writer)
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Release Date:
7 February 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Awards:
7 wins more
User Comments:
Surreal and wild satire more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Kenzo Kawarazaki ... Sakurada Masuo
Atsuko Kaku ... Sakurada Ritsuko
Nobuko Otowa ... Sakurada Shizu
Kei Sato ... Sakurada Kazuomi, Grandfather
Maki Takayama ... Sakurada Kiku
Shizue Kawarazaki ... Sakurada Tomiko
Kiyoshi Tsuchiya ... Sakurada Tadashi
Akiko Koyama ... Sakurada Satsuko
Hosei Komatsu ... Sakurada Isamu
Fumio Watanabe ... Sakurada Shun
Sue Mitobe ... Sakurada Chiyo
Rokko Toura ... Sakurada Mori (as Rokuhiro Tora)
Eitarô Ozawa ... Tachibana Takeyo
Chisako Hara ... Isamu's flower girl
Taiji Tonoyama ... Old chief
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Ceremony
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Runtime:
123 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16

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Movie Connections:
Featured in 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1994) (TV) more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Surreal and wild satire, 6 March 2001
9/10
Author: sharptongue from Sydney, Australia

I hardly know where to start in describing this film. The story is told in flashback, as a conversation. From memory, there are about five flashback episodes, the longest covering the wedding of a young man, where the bride fails to show but the wedding proceeds. The young man continues the farce by attempting to have sex with a large pillow which he calls "darling".

The remainder of the film is just as weird, but I found it completely engrossing. Oshima appears to be attacking many aspects of Japanese modern culture with his scalpel-sharp satirical wit.

Not a film for everyone, but highly recommended nevertheless.

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