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.

• romantic rivalry
• patriarchy
• dysfunctional family
• post war japan
• dying traditions
• traditional family
• cousins in love
• ancestral traditions
• japanese tradition
• suicide by poison
• family rivalry