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Sen no Rikyu: Honkakubo's Student Writings (Death of a Tea Master)

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Original title

Sen no Rikyu (Death of a Tea Master)aka

AKA

Death of a Tea Master

Year

1989

Running time

107 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kei Kumai

Screenwriter

Yoshikata Yoda. Novel: Yaeko Nogami, Yasushi Inoue

Cast

Music

Teizo Matsumura

Cinematography

Masao Tochizawa

Producer

Seiyu Production, Shôchiku, Teshigahara Productions, Toho

Genre

Drama | Biography. 16th Century. Feudal Japan

Synopsis

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.

Awards: 1989: Venice: Silver Lion: Best Director

1990: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: 11 nominations

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Sen no Rikyu: Honkakubo's Student Writings (Death of a Tea Master)

1989

Kei Kumai

6.5

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