Taboo

Nagisa Oshima returns to explore the struggle between tradition and human urges, choosing now to make use of the characteristics of Japanese cinema against which he rebelled when he first appeared in the 1960s. The story takes place in Japan of the mid-19th century. Kano and Tashiro are rookies in a Samurai academy. Tashiro falls in love with Kano and the other men in the academy soon follow suit...