{"id":3925,"date":"2020-01-30T21:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?page_id=3925"},"modified":"2020-02-10T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:53:29","slug":"berlinale-classics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/berlinale-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlinale Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bushido zankoku monogatari (Cruel Tale of Bushido)<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Director: Tadashi Imai, Japan, 1963<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"548\" class=\"wp-image-3998\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/202011870_1_Cruel-Tales-of-Bushido.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/202011870_1_Cruel-Tales-of-Bushido.jpg 775w, https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/202011870_1_Cruel-Tales-of-Bushido-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/01\/202011870_1_Cruel-Tales-of-Bushido-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>\u00a9 TOEI COMPANY, LTD.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The attempted suicide of his fianc\u00e9e prompts a Japanese salary-man to read his family chronicles and look back at the life of his ancestors. They were samurai, the military nobility caste who carried out acts of violence at the behest of feudal lords, but suffered even more so under their cruelty, often forced into ritual suicide (seppuku). The women were under constant threat of kidnapping and rape, and the men subjected to arbitrary disfigurement and homosexual slavery\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In a radical departure from the usual romanticisation of the samurai, director Tadashi Imai \u2013 using period sets and sometimes graphic images \u2013 made a film fundamentally critical of medieval Japan\u2019s feudal system and the inhumane samurai code called bushido&#8230; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teddyaward.tv\/en\/archive\/?a-z=1&amp;select=&amp;id_film=889\">read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bushido zankoku monogatari (Cruel Tale of Bushido) Director: Tadashi Imai, Japan, 1963 The attempted suicide of his fianc\u00e9e prompts a Japanese salary-man to read his family chronicles and look back at the life of his ancestors. They were samurai, the military nobility caste who carried out acts of violence at the behest of feudal lords, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/berlinale-classics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berlinale Classics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3925","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3925\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}