Harakiri [videorecording]

Title:

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[videorecording] Shōchiku Eiga ; seisaku Hosoya Tatsuo ; kyakuhon Hashimoto Shinobu ; kantoku Kobayashi Masaki.

Uniform Title:

Seppuku.

Edition:

Special ed. double disc set.

Publication Information:

[United States] : Criterion Collection, 2005, 1962.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

Criterion collection

General Note:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962.

Based on the novel "Ibun rōninki" by Takiguchi Yasuhiko.

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.

Subject Term:

Feature films.

Foreign films -- Japan.

Motion pictures, Japanese.

Rōnin -- Drama.

Samurai films.

Added Author:

Takiguchi, Yasuhiko, 1924-2004. Ibun rōninki.

Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018

Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996.

Miyajima, Yoshio.

Takemitsu, Tōru.

Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-

Iwashita, Shima, 1941-

Ishihama, Akira.

Added Corporate Author:

Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.

Credits:

Satsuei, Miyajima Yoshio ; ongaku, Takemitsu Tōru.

Performer:

Nakadai Tatsuya, Iwashita Shima, Ishihama Akira, Tanba Tetsurō.

Technical Details:

DVD.

Language:

In Japanese with English subtitles.

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