Love and Honor

Samurai tested in 'Love and Honor'

Yôji Yamada's "Love and Honor" is that increasing rarity, an impeccably made classic Japanese period picture in which a nobility of spirit is tested amid the most beautiful of settings, revealing the harshness and hypocrisy of a feudal society of the utmost formality and rigidity. It completes Yamada's samurai trilogy, drawn from the short stories of Shûhei Fujisawa, that began with the Oscar-nominated "The Twilight Samurai" and "The Twilight Blade. [...]

di Kevin Thomas, articolo completo (1248 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 5 settembre 2008