2002 · period · drama · jidaigeki
Sabu
Directed by Takashi Miike2h 2m2002
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
Our read: Sabu (2002) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded period · drama · jidaigeki entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured period / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
Watching Sabu tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Sabu feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a slow Edo period tale of friendship and quiet loyalty.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if slow pacing or lack of action will bore you tonight.
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