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Harakiri

What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.

8.5(1,308)19622h 15m13

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Japanese
  • suicide
  • japan
  • samurai
  • asia
  • flashback
  • revenge
  • poverty
  • black and white
  • seppuku
  • ronin
  • jidaigeki
  • edo period

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Japan

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR11 Sept 1963
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical1 Jan 1963
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical27 Jan 1964
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU30 Apr 1963
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical185 Jun 1964
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical20 Sept 1963
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalG15 Sept 1962
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical30 Jan 1964
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical16Re-release17 Jul 1980
    • Physical16DVD15 Sept 2008
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical129 Nov 1965
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1515 Sept 1962

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Harakiri was released on 15 September 1962.

Audience reviews

2
  • B

    badelf

    8/19/2012

    10/10

    This is an amazing Japanese classic written and filmed without flaw. The action unfolds in story-telling within story-telling. This is a film about truth. Whose truth? That is the unfoldment. In a perverted way, this amazing piece of work has become predictive of Western corporate banking. Perhaps you'll see what I mean at the end of the film.

  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    5/22/2023

    7/10

    **It's a film that might scare modern audiences a bit, but it deserves the opportunity we want to give it.** In addition to having a very strong film industry, Japan is a country with a very rich past that we in the West tend to devalue. A somewhat ethnocentric attitude, more typical of small minds. For a long time, the Japanese were a people divided by several feudal princes who fought among themselves, disputing…

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