Harakiri

Harakiri

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...