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"Harakiri"
1962
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
This grim and exquisite film explores the honor in
death and the death of honor venerated by the 17th-century samurai. After an
unemployed samurai is forced to commit ritual suicide before a feudal lord,
his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to commit the same act.
Instead, this warrior acts out against the cruelly rigid society that
enforces such harsh discipline. Japanese with English subtitles. 135 minutes. |
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