Hara kiri Seppuku
切腹 /
DVD - 2005
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Samurai films
Film adaptations
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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©2005
- Language
- Japanese
English - Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Special ed. double-disc set; widescreen
- Online Access
- Credits from Internet Movie Database
- Item Description
- Based on the novel "Ibun rōninki" by Takiguchi Yasuhiko.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Special features: disc 1: new, restored high-definition digital transfer; exclusive video introduction by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie; original theatrical trailer; new and improved English subtitle translation; disc 2: rare excerpt of a Directors Guild of Japan video interview with director Masaki Kobayashi conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda (Double Suicide); new video interviews with star Tatsuya Nakadai and screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto; poster gallery; A 32-page booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Joan Mellen and a reprint of her 1972 interview with Kobayashi. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Playing Time
- 02:49:30
- Format
- DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Awards
- Cannes Film Festival, Special Jury Prize (1963).
- Production Credits
- Cinematography, Yoshio Miyajima ; music, Toru Takemitsu.
- ISBN
- 9780780030060
- Access
- Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
- Disc 1. The film
- Disc 2. The supplements.