Harakiri
(2005, original release: 1962)
Fiction
DVD
Series:
Criterion collection
#302
Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/JAPANESE/HARAKIRI
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Homevision, 2005
DESCRIPTION
2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
0780030060 HAR110, 037429207321
LANGUAGE
Japanese
SERIES
Criterion collection #302
NOTES
Release date: Aug. 23, 2005
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
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD
In Japanese with optional English subtitles