The Ceremony
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.
Crew and Cast
Nagisa ŌshimaDirector
Kenzō KawarasakiSakurada MasuoAtsuko KakuSakurada Ritsuko
Atsuo NakamuraTachibana Terumichi
Nobuko OtowaSakurada Shizu
Hōsei KomatsuSakurada Isamu
Rokkō TouraSakurada Mamoru
Fumio WatanabeSusumu
Shizue KawarazakiSakurada Tomiko
Chisako HaraIsamu's flower girlMaki TakayamaSakurada Kiku
Sue MitobeSakurada Chiyo
Eitarō OzawaTachibana Takeyo
Taiji TonoyamaOld Chief
Akiko KoyamaSetsuko
Kei SatōSakurada Kazuomi · Grandfather
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Info
- Original title
- 儀式
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 18 May 1971
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- TMDB score
- 6.8 / 10 (47 votes)
Production
- Director
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Writers
- Nagisa Ōshima, Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Sasaki
- Studios
- Sozosha, Art Theatre Guild
- Countries
- Japan
Languages
- Original
- Japanese
- Spoken
- Japanese