Gishiki (La ceremonia)

Gishiki (La ceremonia) (1971)

儀式

Un estudio fascinante sobre la época de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y de la postguerra en Japón, a través de los ojos de un joven perteneciente a una familia poderosa. Es quizá el trabajo más autobiográfico del director. En efecto, Oshima creció durante esa época, en circunstancias similares, y era descendiente de una importante familia de samuráis.

Fecha de estreno
1971-05-18
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (47)
Duración
2 h 3 min
Géneros
Drama
Director
Nagisa Ōshima

Reparto

Curiosidades

The Ceremony is a 1971 Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Kenzo Kawarasaki and Atsuko Kaku. The film takes place in post-war Japan, following a family clan through their wedding and funeral ceremonies, and the lengths the elder generation goes to preserve their traditions in spite of the damage it causes to the younger.

Production

The Ceremony, like many other Ōshima films, is often seen as a social critique of Japanese society. One of the most important themes in the film is that of the clan's attempt to look prosperous on the outside, while it is secretly falling apart from within.

The film also shows the lengths that the Sakurada clan goes to preserve traditions, and how they negatively affect the younger generations. This is best seen in Masuo's wedding scene, in which his bride does not appear. Rather than canceling the wedding, Kazuomi insists that the ceremony go through as planned, with Masuo facing the embarrassment of having to marry a nonexistent bride.

The incest committed within the family is also a recurring critique of Japanese society. The clan's obsession with inbreeding to keep the family line pure is a reflection of the conformity, xenophobia, and racism that pervade Japanese society.

A recurring scene in the film involves Masuo putting his ear to the ground. The first time the scene is shown, he explains that he is listening for his brother, who was buried alive in northeast China. This is repeated the night before Setsuko's death, and again at the end of the film. This gesture becomes a metaphor for the backward morality and that has crippled the humanity of the Sakurada clan.

The Ceremony has a nonlinear narrative, jumping back and forth between the present, with Masuo and Ritsuko heading out to find Terumichi, and the past, all the weddings and funerals Masuo attended through his life. Masuo often delivers voice-over narration directed to his relatives about his regrets of the past and his feelings of how they affected his life.

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