The Black Bowl That Got Japan's Tea Master Executed

Wabi sabi doesn't mean loving imperfect things — and that mistake hides why Japan's greatest tea master died for it. From Murata Shuko stripping gold from tea to Sen no Rikyu's 3-square-meter Tai-an hut, black Raku bowls and his forced death on April 21, 1591 under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the film shows how a crawling door and a clay bowl became politics. It follows the 16th-generation Raku family, kintsugi workshops and what to keep long enough to become beautiful.