It starts out with scenes of a group of nobles sitting in a courtyard watching a play. At the end, a samurai warrior (Etsushi Toyokawa) walks up to his master’s mistress and murders her for no apparent reason, apparent being the key word. The rest of the movie deconstructs the reasons that the samurai killed the woman, while at the same time building the story of the life he leads during his house arrest for the crime, and what happens to him once he is set free. It’s a masterful job of storytelling from director Hideyuki Hirayama. Fans of samurai movies may be a little put off by the lack of fighting in the first two-thirds of the film, but the carnage created at the end will leave them breathless.
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