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After an unemployed warrior is forced to commit harakiri, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual. Tensions grow to excruciating levels until the thrilling climax, when the elder warrior strikes out one last time against the abusive society th...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Janus Films, Home Vision (Firm)
Other Authors: Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996, Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-, Iwashita, Shima, 1941-, Ishihama, Akira, Takiguchi, Yasuhiko, 1924-2004
Format: Video VHS
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese with new English subtitles.
Published: Chicago, IL : Home Vision, [1994]
Edition:Letterboxed, widescreen version.
Series:Japanese classic collection.
Subjects:
Samurai > Japan > Drama.
Seppuku > Japan > Drama.
Samurai films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Feature films.
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Summary:After an unemployed warrior is forced to commit harakiri, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual. Tensions grow to excruciating levels until the thrilling climax, when the elder warrior strikes out one last time against the abusive society that crafted such cruelty--Container.
Item Description:"Janus Films"--Container.
From the novel by Yasuhiko Takiguchi.
Videocassette release of the 1962 motion picture.
A foreign film (Japan).
Digitally mastered.
Original Cinemascope aspect ratio.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videocassette (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Format:VHS.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto ; photography, Yoshio Miyajima ; music, Toru Takemitsu.
ISBN:0780014782