Ask this of Rikyu

A Kyoto fishmonger’s boy trades scales for tea bowls and ascends to become the shogun’s favored aesthete. His rituals of silence and porcelain earn lethal envy. The film’s lacquered stillness prizes ceremony over catharsis.

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Mitsutoshi Tanaka directed Ask this of Rikyu in 2013. See Mitsutoshi Tanaka's full filmography, where to start with Mitsutoshi Tanaka, or where to go after you've seen everything by Mitsutoshi Tanaka.

Ask this of Rikyu was released in 2013 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 124 minutes.