Review: TATARA SAMURAI Forges Purpose From Imperfection
Some of the hardest parts of growing up in life tend to arise with sacrifice in some capacity. For Nishikori Yoshinari’s new feature film, Tatara Samurai, there’s no better time for such a stark narrative to take shape than during the Sengoku era of Japanese history – much like any era in our world’s history as war has shaped things, and consequently, people. For this, what we get in Nishikori’s latest brings forth a detailed spectrum of a feudal time within a coming-of-age tale that foreshadows timeless messages and lessons through considerably tumultuous circumstances. One such person at the center of it all here is Gosuke (Aoyagi Sho), the son of a family of steel makers residing in Tatara, a small, reclusive mountain village in Izumo, Japan that has become popular for its ritualistic and legendary creation of a rare brand of steel with a technique passed from generation to […]
