The Ceremony

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

• Nagisa ŌshimaDirector
• Mamoru SasakiScreenplay
• Nagisa ŌshimaScreenplay
• Tsutomu TamuraScreenplay
• Toru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer

• Kenzō KawarasakiSakurada Masuo
• Atsuko KakuSakurada Ritsuko
• Atsuo NakamuraTachibana Terumichi
• Nobuko OtowaSakurada Shizu
• Hōsei KomatsuSakurada Isamu
• Rokkō TouraSakurada Mamoru
• Fumio WatanabeSusumu
• Shizue KawarazakiSakurada Tomiko
• Chisako HaraIsamu's flower girl
• Maki TakayamaSakurada Kiku
• Sue MitobeSakurada Chiyo
• Eitarō OzawaTachibana Takeyo