Movie
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2011-10-15
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun, Recorded Picture Company, Sedic International, Amuse Soft Entertainment, Kodansha, Yahoo! Japan, Yamanashi Broadcasting System, Shochiku, dentsu, OLM, The Asahi Shimbun
- Country
- Japan, United Kingdom
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Koji Yakusho as Kageyu
- Ichikawa Ebizo XI as Hanshirô Tsugumo
- Eita Nagayama as Motome
- Hikari Mitsushima as Miho
- Naoto Takenaka as Tajiri
- Kazuki Namioka as Umanosuke Kawabe
- Hirofumi Arai as Hayatonosho Matsuzaki
- Munetaka Aoki as Hikokuro Omodaka
- Takashi Sasano as Sousuke priest
- Gorō Daimon as Priest
- Ayumu Saito as Fujita
- Takehiro Hira as Naotaka Ii
Crew
- Takashi Miike - Director
- Kikumi Yamagishi - Screenplay
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