Harakiri

Harakiri

Seppuku
🎞️ Movie 133 min JP
โ˜… 8.6 /10 1962

The world has never understood why the Japanese prefer death to dishonor! Winner of Prix Special du Jury at Cannes 1963 provides the answer!!

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.

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai
Tatsuya Nakadai
Tsugumo Hanshirô
Akira Ishihama
Akira Ishihama
Chijiiwa Motome
Shima Iwashita
Shima Iwashita
Tsugumo Miho
Tetsurō Tanba
Tetsurō Tanba
Omodaka Hikokurô
Masao Mishima
Masao Mishima
Inaba Tango
Ichirô Nakatani
Ichirô Nakatani
Yazaki Hayato
Kei Satô
Kei Satô
Fukushima Masakatsu
Yoshio Inaba
Yoshio Inaba
Chijiiwa Jinnai
Hisashi Igawa
Hisashi Igawa
Ii Clan Retainer
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Tôru Takeuchi
Ii Clan Retainer
Tôru Takemitsu
Tôru Takemitsu
Composer
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Yoshio Miyajima
Cinematographer

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