La eterna dialéctica entre el arte y la política en "Rikyu" de Hiroshi Teshigara

Abstract

This movie, filmed by the Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara, shows the fight of tragic consequences between the famous Tea Master Sen no Rikyu and the general Toyotomi Hideyoshi, where the dispute between an ambitious officer in command and his discreet master becomes an unavoidable confrontation about how to understand the philosophy of the life. This film, situated in Japan during the XVI century, in an age of continuous wars and intrigues among the different feudal lords, is a carefully worked example of virtuosity and cinematographic quality. Likewise, it makes up a delicate aesthetic exercise about the essence of the tea ceremony.