The last film from renowned Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman     in the Dunes). A sequel to his 1989 film, Rikyu, which followed the     martyrdom of a great tea ceremony master in 16th-century Japan, the lush,        studied Basara follows one of Rikyu's disciples as he ascends to the     position of his master. The new tea master invokes a series of rituals and     esthetics which forever alter Japan's concept of art and subtly express        revolutionary discontent. He soon inspires a princess to invoke her form of      discreet protest. In Japanese with English subtitles.                          Hiroshi Teshigahara---Japan---1992---142 mins.