slaytonf Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 How can a movie that's about a man who proposes to cut out his guts in front of a whole bunch of people be any good? Well, you'll just have to tune in to see. Kurosawa has nothing on this one. Chock full of samurai-era scrupulous attention to ceremony and honor, underlain with the most unscrupulous self-interest and hypocrisy. Watch as one man overturns an entire corrupt regime by pledging to kill himself. 1962, directed by Masaki Kobayashi, with a cast of unknowns (to us) that should be known. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Harakiri is one of my favorite Japanese films. The cast includes Tasuya Nakadai and Tetsuro Tamba, who are both familiar faces to fans of Japanese cinema. Tamba is also known to Western audiences for his role in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice. Terrific acting, stark black and white cinematography, and a scalding indictment on the much-hallowed, but ultimate hollow, "Samurai code". Samurai Rebellion, airing tonight after Harakiri, is also very good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Watch as one man overturns an entire corrupt regime by pledging to kill himself. That will teach them! Rumor has it was tried here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Harakiri--yuck! About to commit Harry Carey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 About to commit Harry Carey Uh-huh. OR, how John Wayne famously did it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipMurdock Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 That will teach them! Rumor has it was tried here. dont insult muslins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 How can a movie that's about a man who proposes to cut out his guts in front of a whole bunch of people be any good? Well, you'll just have to tune in to see. Kurosawa has nothing on this one. Chock full of samurai-era scrupulous attention to ceremony and honor, underlain with the most unscrupulous self-interest and hypocrisy. Watch as one man overturns an entire corrupt regime by pledging to kill himself. 1962, directed by Masaki Kobayashi, with a cast of unknowns (to us) that should be known. Tatsuya Nakadai is probably one of the best-known Japanese actors in the world of cinema after World War II. Nakadai has appeared in more than 230 feature films as well as TV mini-series. He starred in two of Akira Kurosawa's late masterpieces-- the 1980 epic Kagemusha and the 1985 version of King Lear, Ran. After Kurosawa's death his team got together to make a hauntingly beautiful film from the Sensei's last film script, After the Rain. Nakadai Co - starred with Toshiro Mifune's oldest son Shiro Mifune. Nakadai also appeared in Kurosawa's the Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro and the High and the Low, this is a modern-day police murder mystery with Toshiro Mifune playing a business executive who was relying on a police inspector, played by Nakadai to solve a child's kidnapping. In a career that spans from 1954 to the present Nakadai has worked with all of the Great post war Japanese directors--Naruse, Ichikawa, Yamamoto and Kobayashi, who directed Harakiri in 1962. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 About to commit Harry Carey Hee-hee-hee! Thought of this when fist seeing the thread title. How we ALL first pronounced it like the venerable character actor's name. Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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