Ask This of Rikyu

Ask This of Rikyu

 

(7.5 from 13 users)

2h 04m 2013 HD

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's award-winning novel of the same name received the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 37th Montréal World Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival, the 30th Fumiko Yamaji Cultural Award and the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in nine categories, including Best Art Direction, Excellent Film and Excellent Actor.


Related Movies

  • 1959
    53 Stages of the Road

    53 Stages of the Road

    53 Stages of the Road

    01959HD

    An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.

    53 Stages of the Road
  • 2006
    Kokoda

    Kokoda

    Kokoda

    6.22006HD

    A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.

    Kokoda
  • 1989
    Steel Magnolias

    Steel Magnolias

    Steel Magnolias

    7.21989HD

    A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of...

    Steel Magnolias
  • 1958
    Little Peach

    Little Peach

    Little Peach

    5.81958HD

    Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

    Little Peach
  • 2005
    Strange Circus

    Strange Circus

    Strange Circus

    7.22005HD

    The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to...

    Strange Circus
  • 2001
    Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

    Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

    Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

    62001HD

    Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese...

    Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
  • 1998
    Dangerous Beauty

    Dangerous Beauty

    Dangerous Beauty

    7.11998HD

    Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of...

    Dangerous Beauty
  • 2007
    Caramel

    Caramel

    Caramel

    6.92007HD

    In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust...

    Caramel
  • 2008
    Tokyo Sonata

    Tokyo Sonata

    Tokyo Sonata

    7.42008HD

    A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

    Tokyo Sonata
  • 2000
    Ring 0

    Ring 0

    Ring 0

    6.12000HD

    Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly,...

    Ring 0
  • 2019
    Farewell Song

    Farewell Song

    Farewell Song

    7.32019HD

    As they travel around the country, a singer-songwriter duo's love triangle with their roadie jeopardizes their unannounced farewell tour.

    Farewell Song
  • 1993
    Rising Sun

    Rising Sun

    Rising Sun

    6.11993HD

    When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called...

    Rising Sun