Death of a Tea Master [SEP] director
Death of a Tea Master
Death of a Tea Master (, "Sen no Rikyu: Honkakubô ibun" also known as "Sen no Rikyū: Honkakubo's Student Writings") is a 1989 Japanese biographical drama film directed by Kei Kumai. It is based on real life events of Sen no Rikyū, particularly the events surrounding his ritual suicide. It was entered into the main competition at the 43rd Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Silver Lion. 
The film has yet to see an NTSC home
Furuta Oribe
, whose birth name was , was a daimyō and celebrated master of the Japanese tea ceremony. 
Biography.
He was originally a retainer of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. 
His teacher in the tea ceremony was Sen no Rikyū. He became the foremost tea master in the land after Rikyū's death, and taught this art to the shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada. Among his other particularly famous tea ceremony students were Kobori Enshū and Honami Kōetsu.
The kind of tea ceremony that he established is known as