Akira Ishihama
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
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.