Harakiri

Movie Information

A samurai, Hanshiro Tsugumo, arrives at the house of the Iyi Clan with an unusual request. Due to his circumstances, he wishes to commit harakiri, ritual suicide, in the courtyard of the house. Turns out this is not such an unusual request: the clan has had such requests before, though the requestor's intentions weren't always honourable. The Clan elder tells Tsugumo the story of the last samurai who made the request and how that ended. Will he still go through with it?—grantss

Director:

Masaki Kobayashi

Writer:

Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Shinobu Hashimoto

Actors:

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita