Flower (Hana yori mo naho) - delicate and ironical glance at samurai genre by Hirokazu Koreeda
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Director Hirokazu Koreeda (Nobody Knows, After life) subverts the samurai film genre with Hana Yori mo Naho (a.k.a. Hana). He turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community.
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