Tadashi Imai – Bushidô zankoku monogatari AKA Cruel Tales Of Bushido (1963)
PLOT:
The attempted suicide of his fiancée prompts a Japanese salary-man to read his family chronicles and look back at the life of his ancestors. They were samurai, the military nobility caste who carried out acts of violence at the behest of feudal lords, but suffered even more so under their cruelty, often forced into ritual suicide (seppuku). The women were under constant threat of kidnapping and rape, and the men subjected to arbitrary disfigurement and homosexual slavery … In a radical departure from the usual romanticisation of the samurai, director Tadashi Imai – using period sets and sometimes graphic images – made a film fundamentally critical of medieval Japan’s feudal system and the inhumane samurai code called bushido. In addition, the final two of the eight episodes in the film draw parallels between that and kamikaze pilots of World War II, as well as Japan’s modern achievement-oriented society. Bushido zankoku monogatari was awarded the Golden Bear at the 1963 Berlin International Film Festival.
Cruel.Tales.of.Bushido.1963.Tadashi.Imai.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 2 h 2 min Size: 2.54 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 1024x428 Aspect ratio: 2.40:1 Frame rate: 23.976 fps Bit rate: 2 806 kb/s BPP: 0.267 Audio #1: Japanese 1.0ch AC-3 @ 160 kb/s (Mono)
Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, French
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