2017 · samurai · war · jidaigeki
Sekigahara
Directed by Masato Harada2h 30m2017
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Our read: Sekigahara (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded samurai · war · jidaigeki entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured samurai / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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