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Aug 04 1964
133 min
8.6
Actors:
Tatsuya Nakadai,
Akira Ishihama,
Shima Iwashita
Directors:
Masaki Kobayashi
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 feud...
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