2007 · drama · period · visual
Sakuran
Directed by Mika Ninagawa1h 51m2007
Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.
Our read: Sakuran (2007) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · period · visual entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / period, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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