A Delight To The Senses, Must See Film
This film is one you will remember for the rest of your life. Guaranteed. A timeline tale of how arrogance can change fortunes, set with stunning detail across a film that will hold you captivated. The entire cast and crew have done an outstanding job of transporting audiences back to Old Japan, and across the decades of cultural change.Stunning, intricate costumes with time period settings and scenery, even the colour grading is matched to resemble the relevant decades. The story is a powerful one that will leave you thinking for hours about fame, fortune and ego.
If ever there is a stage or TV adaptation, recommend Kazuya Kamenashi for the ML. While watching this film, it seemed to present potential to create a vehicle with smaller stories across multiple timelines. Enjoy.
Viewed at the Japanese Film Festival in Brisbane, Australia, Nov 2025.
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