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Harakiri
(1962)
Seppuku
The world has never understood why the Japanese prefer death to dishonor! Winner of Prix Special du Jury at Cannes 1963 provides the answer!!
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Stars: Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, Shichisaburo Amatsu, Yoshio Aoki, Jo Azumi, Hisashi Igawa, Yoshio Inaba, Akiji Kobayashi
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto
Language: English
Studio: Filmfreak
Duration: 135
Rated: 16 years and older
DVD Release: September 2008

Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri (self-inflicted disembowelment). An elder warrior, Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) seeks admittance to the house of a feudal lord to commit the act. There, he learns of the fate of his son-in-law, a young samurai who sought work at the house but was instead barbarically forced to commit traditional hara-kiri in an excruciating manner with a dull bamboo blade. In flashbacks the samurai tells the tragic story of his son-in-law, and how he was forced to sell his real sword to support his sick wife and child. Tsugumo thus sets in motion a tense showdown of revenge against the house.


Rentarô MikuniKageyu Saito
Tatsuya NakadaiHanshiro Tsugumo
Shima IwashitaMiho Tsugumo
Akira IshihamaMotome Chijiiwa
Jô AzumiIchiro Shimmen
Shichisaburo AmatsuRetainer
Hisashi IgawaRetainer
Yoshio InabaJinai Chijiiwa
Yoshio AokiUmenosuke Kawabe
Akiji Kobayashi(as Shôji Kobayashi)
Tetsurô TanbaHikokuro Omodaka
Tetsuro TambaHikokuro Omodaka
Masao MishimaTango Inaba
Ichirô NakataniHayato Yazaki
Ichirô NakayaHayato Yazaki
Tôru TakemitsuComposer
Yoshio MiyajimaCinematographer
Kei SatôMasakazu
Ryo TakeuchiRetainer
Hisashi SagaraEditor
Nakajirô Tomita
Tôru TakeuchiRetainer
Gin'ichi Kishimotoassociate producer
Kenzô Tanaka
Makoto NaitôDevelopment Manager
Yoshirô AokiUmenosuke Kawabe
Shin Nakahara
Tatsuo MatsumuraSeibei
Kôichi Hayashi
Tsuneo Ikeda
Junpei OosumiArt Direction
Minoru Miyagi
Ryûtarô Gomi(as Katsuo Gomi)
Shigemasa TodaArt Direction
Takaaki Kadota
Hideo Nishizakisound
Ichirô Yamamoto
Zenichi TajiriSet Decoration
Gen Takasugi
Mitsuzô UedaCostume Design
Satoshi Nishida
Gyôuemon KimuraHairstylist
Tetsurô Komiyama
Shûichirô Narita
Yoshiko KimuraHairstylist
Noboru Kasuga
Kôji NiwaAssistant Director
Shinpachi Kura
Kenji Hayashi
Shôtarô Hayashi
Shimezô Kataoka
Fumiya Ozawa
Kônosuke Takemoto
Genre: Drama
Media: DVD
Sound: Mono
IMDb: 0056058