Ogin Sama - Sen Rikyu is a
ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal
Japan.
His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love
for daimyo Takayama Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian
convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's
plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he
threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.... Toshiro Mifune stars as
Toyotomi Hideyoshi the great war-lord who unified Japan. After accomplishing
that he solves the problem of what to do with his great but idle army by
attacking Korea.
He also hates Christians because they put God above Hideyoshi
and that sets the scene for great pomp and gore. Very interesting sets and
costumes.
Based on the Novel by Toko Kon, the film appears to be fairly
accurate historically.
