In medieval Japan a rebellious Korean artist named Yoshihide (Tatsuya Nakadai) witnesses the death of a peasant at the hands of Lord Hosokawa (Kinnosuke Nakamura) and creates a painting of the dead man cursing Hosokowa that’s so vivid it panics the tyrant into visions of his ghost. So Hosokowa retaliates by ordering Yoshihide to paint a mural extolling his benevolence. … Read the rest
