The Ceremony
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- Movie: The Ceremony
- Romaji: Gishiki
- Japanese: 儀式
- Director: Nagisa Oshima
- Writer: Nagisa Oshima, Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura
- Producer:
- Cinematographer: Tsutomu Narushima
- Release Date: June 5, 1971
- Runtime: 123 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Nagisa Oshima's masterwork, THE CEREMONY was widely hailed as the most ambitious Japanese film of its decade; a dense and complex family saga focusing on a young boy, born in Manchuria, and his mother, who make it back home after the war to rejoin the powerful Sakadura clan. Oshima savagely chronicles the family's fortunes and woes from 1946 to the present, as its members gather for yearly ceremonies: burials, weddings, reunions. Through magisterial use of flashbacks, Oshima reveals the Sakaduras' dark past, its communists and militarists, war criminals and rising businessmen, sports heroes and suicidal patriarchs all involved in postwar Japan's economic rise and societal shame.
Cast
- Kenzo Kawarasaki - 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
- Eitaro Ozawa - Tachibana Takeyo
- Chisako Hara - Isamu's flower girl
- Taiji Tonoyama - Old chief
- Atsuo Nakamura - Tachibana Terumichi
- Ryuichi Tsubaki - Masuo -Teenager
- Yumi Narushima - Ritsuko - teenager
- Yoshiaki Ota - Terumichi - teenager
- Yukihiro Tsubaki - Tadashi - Teenager
