LoginHarakiri (The Criterion Collection) - Region 1 DVD
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Dramatically compelling and emotionally intense, Harakiri is a certified classic of Japanese film, and a riveting study of samurai codes of honor. Unlike Kurosawa's rousing samurai epics, this is an uncompromisingly tragic tale, exposing the hypocrisy of 17th-century Japanese society with its story of a family destroyed by the cruelty of feudalism toward warriors in peacetime. The film is truly Shakespearean in its emotional scope, embodied by the unforgettable performance of Tatsuya Nakadai (star of Kurosawa's Ran) as an elder warrior seeking revenge for the unnecessary seppuku (ritual suicide) of his beloved son-
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Manufacturer: Criterion
Release date: 23 August 2005
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 9780780030060 UPC: 037429207321
Release date: 23 August 2005
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 9780780030060 UPC: 037429207321
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