Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 22, 2013
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ebizô Ichikawa & Kôji Yakusho | |
Directed by | Takashi Miike | |
Screenplay by | Kikumi Yamagishi | |
Composition by | Ryuichi Sakamoto | |
Director of Photography: | Nobuyasu Kita |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5 --
HK:DOAS is a beautifully artistic, yet unflinching revenge film; distorted by unnecessary 3D and 45 minutes of additional runtime.
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2UE That Movie Show
Rating: 4/5 --
It's an indelible picture of a cold-hearted ruling class that has allowed self-interest and hypocrisy to override its own humanity.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 2/5 --
The emphasis throughout is not on action, but melodrama - with a rather long and overstated middle section devoted to Monotome's backstory which has little dramatic tension.
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ViewLondon
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A quiet, narratively layered period drama with a focus squarely on character.
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Arizona Republic
Rating: 3/4 --
A 3-D epic that, despite its title, is more of a soap opera than a swordplay thriller.
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New York Post
...[Director Miike Takashi] is content showing himself a stylist that has understood what it takes to be a good genre filmmaker today...
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Cinema Scope
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Miike brings a formal, elegant restraint to his usual flair for wild theatrics.
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Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Japanese auteur Takashi Miike takes an uncharacteristically serious and somber approach to this moody period tale of honor and revenge. In the 17th century, Japan is enjoying an era of calm and tranquility, which is good news for most people but bad news for the samurai, the class of professional soldiers who now find themselves without jobs or a sense of purpose. Hanshiro (Ebizo Ichikawa) is a samurai who, with no money and no prospects, has arrived at the House of Ii, hoping to use its courtyard as a setting for the suicide ritual known as hara-kiri. However, the ruler of the House if Ii, Kageyu (Koji Yakusho), has been hearing similar requests often as of late, and he knows most of them are emotional blackmail, attempts to persuade the members of the house to give the samurai money. To show what he thinks of such shameless appeals, Kageyu tells Hanshiro the story of one such warrior, Motome (Eita), who had his bluff called and was forced to take his own life with a dull weapon made of bamboo. But Kageyu is unaware of the connection between Hanshiro and Motome, and he underestimates the impact this story will have on Hanshiro. Adapted from Masaki Kobayashi's celebrated 1962 feature HARAKIRI, HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI (aka ICHIMEI) was also one of the first 3-D features to debut at the Cannes Film Festival.
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