Seppuku : Harakiri /

切腹 Harakiri /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors:	Hosoya, Tatsuo, Takiguchi, Yasuhiko, 1924-2004, Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018, Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996, Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-, Ishihama, Akira, 1935-, Iwashita, Shima, 1941-, Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013, Takemitsu, Tōru
Format:	Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:	Japanese
Language Notes:	Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Published:	[United States] : Criterion Collection, 2011.
Edition:	Blu-Ray edition.
Series:	Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 302.
Subjects:	Seppuku > Drama. Samurai > Drama. Motion picture producers and directors > Japan > Interviews. Samurai films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Japanese. Feature films. Fiction films.

Description
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.
Item Description:	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. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Format:	Blu-ray.
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Miyajima Yoshio ; music, Takemitsu Tōru.
ISBN:	9781604654882 1604654880