From legendary filmmaker Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Audition, Ichi the Killer) comes a classic tale of honour and revenge amidst the fall of the Samurai in 17th Century Japan. Seeking a noble end, poverty-stricken Samurai Hanshiro requests to commit ritual suicide at the House of a Feudal Lord. But after being told the tragic story of another Samurai’s agonizing suicide, that of Hanshiro’s close friend Motome, Hanshiro sets out on a path of vengeance, one that will lead to a tense and bloody showdown with those responsible for his friend's brutal death.
Film Crew
- : Takashi Miike
- : Kikumi Yamagishi
- : Yasuhiko Takiguchi
- : Nobuyasu Kita
- : Kenji Shibazaki
- : Yuji Hayashida
- : Kazuko Kurosawa
- : Kenji Yamashita
- : Ryuichi Sakamoto
- : Jeremy Thomas
- : Toshiaki Nakazawa
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From legendary filmmaker Takashi Miike comes a classic tale of honour and revenge amidst the fall of the Samurai in 17th Century Japan.-
Patient audiences are rewarded with a beautifully crafted story of suffering, sacrifice and vengeance that gradually gains in emotional weight
Allan Hunter, Screen Daily -
...unexpected gearshifts provide plenty of narrative meat.
Paul Bradshaw, Total Film -
A formally elegant, dramatically faithful retelling of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 black-and-white classic "Harakiri"...
Justin Chang, Variety
