"Japanese Magnolia" The true forbidden love story of two men, a samurai and a peasant in Edo Japan. can a Japanese samurai of impeaccable lieage in Edo period Japan get away with? Can he break all the rules of society and get away with it? It all started when an aging samurai took an eccentric interest in a teenage peasant boy who had the unusual gift of writing and one day he brought his son, Lord Okimoto to the peasant`s house. The eyes of the samurai`s son and the teenage peasant met and spawned a forbidden love affair which broke all the rules of Japan`s Edo period society and a feudal class so sharply defined that it could cut like a knife.