The Ceremony
1971·2h 3m·★ 6.8(42)
Director Nagisa ŌshimaWriters Mamoru Sasaki, Nagisa Ōshima, Tsutomu Tamura
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
