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Title:
Harakiri = Seppuku [blu-ray]
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[blu-ray] / Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha ; seisaku Hosoya Tatsuo ; gensaku Takiguchi Yasuhiko ; kyakuhon Hashimoto Shinobu ; kantoku Kobahashi Masaki.
Edition:
Blu-ray special ed.
Publication Information:
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781604654882
Series:
General Note:
Based on the novel by Takiguchi Yasuhiko.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962.
Booklet includes Harakiri : Kobayashi and history / by Joan Mellen -- Interview with Masaki Kobayashi conducted by Joan Mellen in 1972.
Special features: video 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; original theatrical trailer; interviews with star Tatsuya Nakadai and screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto.
Abstract:
After an unemployed samurai is forced to commit harakiri before a feudal lord, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual.
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No rating available.
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Title (vernacular script):
Harakiri = 切腹 / 松竹株式会社 ; 製作細谷辰雄 ; 原作滝口康彦 ; 脚本橋本忍 ; 監督小林正樹.
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Variant Title:
Hara kiri
Parallel title: Seppuku
Credits:
Cinematography, Miyajima Yoshio ; editor, Hisashi Sagara ; music, Takemitsu Tōru.
Performer:
Nakadai Tatsuya, Ishihama Akira, Iwashita Shima, Mikuni Rentarō, Tetsurō Tamba.
Technical Details:
Blu-ray; region A; mono.; 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
Language:
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.