Harakiri
1962 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan
A ronin, a masterless samurai, requests permission to commit an honorable ritual suicide at the home of a powerful but sadistic warlord. The warlord is reluctant to permit this as he has been recently deceived by another ronin, who was trying to obtain charity from the house. This ronin, however, is permitted to tell the story of how he came to be in such a situation.
Direction Masaki Kobayashi
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Akira Ishihama · Shima Iwashita · Tetsurô Tanba · Masao Mishima · Ichirô Nakatani · Kei Sato · Yoshio Inaba · Hisashi Igawa · Tôru Takeuchi · Yoshio Aoki · Tatsuo Matsumura · Akiji Kobayashi · Kôichi Hayashi · Ryutaro Gomi · Jo Azumi · Nakajirô Tomita · Shichisaburô Amatsu · Kenzô Tanaka · Shin Nakahara · Tsuneo Ikeda · Minoru Miyagi · Takaaki Kadota · Satoshi Nishida · Tetsurô Komiyama · Shûichirô Narita · Noboru Kasuga
Soundtrack Tôru Takemitsu
Screenplay Shinobu Hashimoto · Yasuhiko Takiguchi
Cinematography Yoshio Miyajima
Original title Seppuku (Harakiri)
Also known as Hara-kiri
8.5
11K votes (FilmAffinity)
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