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Harakiri = Seppuku
Title
Harakiri = Seppuku / Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha ; seisaku Hosoya Tatsuo ; gensaku Takiguchi Yasuhiko ; kyakuhon Hashimoto Shinobu ; kantoku Kobahashi Masaki.
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.
ISBN
9781604654882
1604654880
Edition
Blu-ray special ed.
Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Notes
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.
Cinematography, Miyajima Yoshio ; editor, Hisashi Sagara ; music, Takemitsu Tōru.
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Cannes Film Festival, Special Jury Prize.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Seppuku
Title on container: Harakiri
Hara kiri
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Japanese
Added to Catalog
May 09, 2018
Series
Criterion collection ; 302
Credits
Cinematography, Miyajima Yoshio ; editor, Hisashi Sagara ; music, Takemitsu Tōru.
Cast
Nakadai Tatsuya, Ishihama Akira, Iwashita Shima, Mikuni Rentarō, Tetsurō Tamba.
System details note
Blu-ray; region A; mono.; 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
Videorecording number
CC2063BD Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Samurai films.
Samurai films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Feature films - Japan.
Foreign language films - Japanese.
Motion pictures - Japan.
Also listed under
小林正樹, 1916-1996.
細谷辰雄.
橋本忍, 1918-
仲代逹矢, 1932-
石浜朗, 1935-
岩下志麻, 1941-
三国連太郎, 1923-
丹波哲郎, 1922-2006.
武満徹.
滝口康彦, 1924-2004. 異聞浪人記.
Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.
松竹株式会社.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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