Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai (Blu-ray)

Directed by Takashi Miike

Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Hikari Mitsushima, Naoto Takenaka, Eita, Kazuki Namioka, Munetaka Aoki, Hirofumi Arai, Ichikawa Ebizô, Takashi Sasano, Ayumu Saitô, Goro Daimon, Baijaku Nakamura

Contributors: Kikumi Yamagishi, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Jeremy Thomas, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nobuyasu Kita

Studio: Icon Film Distribution
Main Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Region: Region B
Release Date: 7 Apr 2025
Originally Issued: 2011
No of Discs: 1
Weight: 90g
Dimensions: 135 x 15 x 171 (mm)
Genre: World Cinema
BBFC Cert: (18) Suitable for 18 years and over.
Rental/Retail: Retail/Rental
Run Time: 128 minutes

Description

Takashi Miike directs this remake of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 classic historical drama 'Hara-Kiri'. In 17th century Japan a samurai called Hanshiro (Ichikawa Ebizô) arrives at the Li household to request permission to commit ritual suicide after falling into poverty. Suspicious of Hanshiro's motives, Kageyu (Kôji Yakusho) tries to dissuade him from his path by telling him of the horrific fate of the last ronin to have made this request, a young man called Motome (Eita).

Hanshiro appears undeterred but as his own story unfolds in flashback, it becomes clear that his true motives are very different from those he first declared.

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