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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

2011 · 128 min

A slow, sorrowful descent into ritual and revenge, steeped in shame and quiet fury.

Tagline
Love Honour Revenge.
Overview
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Stream in the UK
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • MUBI
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • guilt
  • politics
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror4
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, history
Directed by
Takashi Miike
Written by
Kikumi Yamagishi
Starring
Koji Yakusho, Ichikawa Ebizo XI, Eita Nagayama, Hikari Mitsushima, Naoto Takenaka, Kazuki Namioka, Hirofumi Arai, Munetaka Aoki
Music
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cinematography
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Runtime
128 min
Country
Japan, United Kingdom
Languages
Spanish, Japanese

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