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Director:
Writers:
Hiroshi Takeyama (screenplay)
Shûgorô Yamamoto (novel)
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Release Date:
14 May 2002 (Japan) more
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Tagline:
Other People Don't Matter
Plot:
A tale set in the Tokugawa Era. Framed for a crime he did not commit, Eiji is subjected to the harsh realities of the Ishikawa Island workhouse... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Tatsuya Fujiwara ... Eiji
Satoshi Tsumabuki ... Sabu
Tomoko Tabata ... Onobu
Kazue Fukiishi ... Osue
Kenji Sawada ... Okayasu
Naomasa Musaka ... Matsuda
Tatsuo Yamada ... Ryojiro Kojima
Yoshiki Arizono ... Yohei
Keisuke Horibe
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ken'ichi Endô ... Giichi
Mayuko Nishiyama ... Osono
Ren Ôsugi ... Heizo (as Ren Oosugi)
Hiroshi Tamaki ... Kinta
Yôji Tanaka ... Toku
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122 min
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Proof that Takashi Miike is truly a brilliant director, 8 January 2004
7/10
Author: StainBoy from Allen, Texas

Sabu is a simple, straight-forward friendship/love story with few surprises, very unlike Miike's more popular movies (which have been recognized as some of the most disturbingly shocking and violent films of all time). But what makes this movie better than just an average movie of the week is the direction. The opening 10 minutes are some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. And throughout, Miike shows everyone that he can handle a story without sex or ultra-violence with one of the greatest styles the cinema has known. The movie itself is worth seeing at least once, but the directing gives it replay value several times over.

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