The Ceremony with Arabic, English, French and Italian subtitles
is a 1971 drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Kenzo Kawarasaki and Atsuko Kaku.
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.