Kano is an "emotionless" center around which others spin out of control. His beauty is a corrupting force that reveals the cracks in the Shinsengumi’s armor.
The story begins in 1865 Kyoto with the arrival of two new recruits to the Shinsengumi: the crude, capable ( Tadanobu Asano ) and the strikingly beautiful, androgynous Kano Sozaburo (Ryuhei Matsuda). Kano is not just a merchant’s son with a pretty face; he is a stone-cold killer who admits he joined the militia simply for the "license to kill". Gohatto(1999)
Gohatto is far more than a "gay samurai movie." It serves as an allegorical critique of modern Japanese society and any institution that demands the total repression of individual desire for the sake of the collective. Kano is an "emotionless" center around which others
Oshima continues his career-long theme of raw passion confronting social constructs. In Gohatto , passion doesn't just destroy the lovers; it "demolishes society" itself. A Master’s Visual Legacy Kano is not just a merchant’s son with