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2013 | 123 min | with English Subtitles | Directed by Mitsutoshi Tanaka
Starring: Ichikawa Ebizō XI, Miki Nakatani | Distributed by TOEI
Co-presented by Excel Human
  


★ San Francisco Premiere
★ Special Appearance by Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka + Q&A!
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Based on the award-winning novel “Rikyu Ni Tazuneyo” by Kenichi Yamamoto, the film begins with the final days of Rikyu, the tea master with the most profound influence on chanoyu, the Japanese “Way of Tea” tradition, who was ordered to commit ritual suicide by the chancellor Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Who was Rikyu – who inspired fear in the most powerful man of his time?

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