--- title: 'Rikyu (1989)' type: 'film' director: 'Hiroshi Teshigahara' released: '1989-09-15' runtime_minutes: 135 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/rikyu-1989' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098204/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Rikyu (1989) 1989 · 135 min · Drama · Japan Original title: 利休 ## Synopsis Rikyu is a 1989 Japanese drama film about Sen no Rikyū, a 16th-century master of the Japanese tea ceremony, directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The film was adapted from the novel Hideyoshi to Rikyu by Yaeko Nogami. The film was ranked the 7th best film of the year by Kinema Junpo in 1989. It was one of two major biographical drama films directed in 1989 about the life of Sen no Rikyū, the other being Death of a Tea Master by Kei Kumai. Rikyu was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards but was not accepted as a nominee. ## Credits - **Director:** [Hiroshi Teshigahara](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiroshi-teshigahara) - **Screenplay:** [Hiroshi Teshigahara](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiroshi-teshigahara) - **Original Music Composer:** [Tōru Takemitsu](https://cinepixo.com/people/toru-takemitsu) ## Cast - [Hisashi Igawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/hisashi-igawa) - [Tsutomu Yamazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsutomu-yamazaki) - [Yoshiko Mita](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshiko-mita) - [Nakamura Kichiemon II](https://cinepixo.com/people/nakamura-kichiemon-ii) - [Ryō Tamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryo-tamura) - [Sayoko Yamaguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/sayoko-yamaguchi) - [Matsumoto Hakuō II](https://cinepixo.com/people/matsumoto-hakuo-ii) - [Rentarō Mikuni](https://cinepixo.com/people/rentaro-mikuni) - [Tanie Kitabayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/tanie-kitabayashi) - [Kyōko Kishida](https://cinepixo.com/people/kyoko-kishida) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/rikyu-1989 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7334152); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.