Harakiri Blu-ray presents Masaki Kobayashi’s masterful samurai drama, a searing critique of honour, power, and hypocrisy in feudal Japan.

After the collapse of his clan, a destitute ronin arrives at the estate of a powerful lord requesting permission to commit ritual suicide. As the samurai recounts the tragic events that brought him there, a devastating portrait of corruption and cruelty emerges beneath the rigid codes of honour upheld by the ruling class.

Driven by Tatsuya Nakadai’s extraordinary performance and Kobayashi’s striking visual style, Harakiri remains one of the greatest and most influential samurai films ever made.

directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba
1962 / 133 min / 2.35:1 / Japanese / Black & White

Film Info
Japan
1962
133 minutes
Black & White
2.35:1
Japanese
Spine #302

Harakiri [Blu-ray] w/o slip

Name: Harakiri [Blu-ray] w/o slip
Brand: Criterion Collection
Price: 43.99 CAD
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Special Features

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Introduction by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie
• Excerpt from a rare Directors Guild of Japan video interview with director Masaki Kobayashi, moderated by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda
• Interviews with star Tatsuya Nakadai and screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto
• Original theatrical trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Joan Mellen and a reprint of Mellen’s 1972 interview with Kobayashi
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