gohatto (1999)

in the japan of 1865 the young people who become samurai are recruited. rituals, jealousies and tensions in the shadow of the shogun describe the repressed homosexuality of a closed and declining caste: sozaburo kano is among the enlisted youths, young and with a disturbing beauty. upon his arrival, there are many who experience an irresistible attraction for that seductive angelic face and the community of ferocious samurai will be destroyed for this, while japan is moving towards modernization.