Harakiri
- IMDb link: 0056058
- IMDb rating: 8.6 (90,722 votes)
- Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, History
- Director: Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tanba, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita and others
- Release date: 4 Aug 1964
- Release year: 1962
- Runtime: 133 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Keywords: samurai, seppuku, poverty, revenge, suicide, year 1630, harakiri, one against many, sword fight, japanese culture
Plot:
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?