Tatsuya Nakadai
Hanshiro Tsugumo
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Harakiri (切腹, Seppuku) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The story takes place between 1619 and 1630 during the Edo period and the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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With Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba. When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
- (70K)
- Action, Drama, Mystery
- Masaki Kobayashi
- 1964-08-04
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, Harakiri, directed by Masaki Kobayashi is a fierce evocation of individual agency in the face of a corrupt and hypocritical system. Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to commit ritual ...
- Hanshiro Tsugumo
Harakiri is a flawlessly told story with yet another unbelievable performance from one of the greatest to ever do it, Tatsuya Nakadai. This flips the samurai genre on its head and tells a fascinating tale about honor, tragedy, and mortality in ways only a master of the craft could.
- (110.9K)
- Shochiku
- Masaki Kobayashi
Harakiri (movie, 1962) Seppuku. An unusual request for ritual suicide on a feudal lord's property leads to the unwinding of a greater mystery that challenges the clan's integrity.
The ritual act is known as harakiri, or seppuku (which is the film's title in Japanese). It involves using a short blade for self-disembowelment. After the blade plunges in and slices from left to right, a designated master swordsman stands by to decapitate the samurai with one powerful stroke.
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