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Death of a Tea Master

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Director
  
Kei Kumai

Duration
  

Music director
  
Teizo Matsumura

Country
  
Japan

7.2/10
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Genre
  
Drama, History

Running time
  
1h 47m

Screenplay
  
Yoshikata Yoda

Language
  
Japanese

Death of a Tea Master movie poster

Release date
  
1989 (1989)

Writer
  
Yasushi Inoue (novel), Yaeko Nogami (novel), Yoshikata Yoda

Cast
  
Eiji Okuda
(Honkakubo),
Toshirō Mifune
(Rikyu Sen-no),
Gô Katô
(Oribe Furuta),
Kinnosuke Nakamura
(Urakusai Oda),
Shinsuke Ashida
(Hideyoshi Toyotomi),
Eijirô Tôno
(Kokei)

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Yaeko Nogami wrote the story for Death of a Tea Master and Rikyu

Death of a Tea Master (Japanese: 千利休 本覺坊遺文, Sen no Rikyu: Honkakubô ibun also known as Sen no Rikyū: Honkakubo's Student Writings) is a 1989 Japanese biographical drama film directed by Kei Kumai. It is based on real life events of Sen no Rikyū, particularly the events surrounding his ritual suicide. It was entered into the main competition at the 43rd Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Silver Lion.

Cast

  • Eiji Okuda as Honkakubo
  • Toshiro Mifune as Sen no Rikyū
  • Kinnosuke Yorozuya as Oda Urakusai
  • Go Kato as Furuta Oribe
  • Shinsuke Ashida as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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