Sen no Rikyu: Honkakubo's Student Writings (Death of a Tea Master)
1989 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan
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.
Direction Kei Kumai
Cast Eiji Okuda · Toshirô Mifune · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Go Kato · Shinsuke Ashida · Eijirô Tono · Taketoshi Naitô · Tsunehiko Kamijô · Taro Kawano · Teizo Muta
Soundtrack Teizo Matsumura
Screenplay Yoshikata Yoda · Yaeko Nogami · Yasushi Inoue
Cinematography Masao Tochizawa
Original title Sen no Rikyu (Death of a Tea Master)
Also known as Death of a Tea Master
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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