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      Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

      Released Jul 20, 2012 2h 6m History Drama List
      77% Tomatometer 43 Reviews 75% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings A samurai (Ebizô Ichikawa) asks permission to commit ritual suicide in the courtyard of a prominent feudal lord and hears the gruesome tale of what happened to a comrade who made a similar request several months earlier. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jan 04 Buy Now

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      Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai adds an atypically restrained entry to the Takashi Miike filmography that loses little impact in favoring human drama over action.

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      Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai reveals yet another facet of this always-unpredictable filmmaker: a flair for compassionate, humane melodrama. Rated: 3/4 Sep 23, 2012 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Hara-Kiri may be a lesser Miike work, but it's still a (literally) gutsy exercise in prolonged narrative recursiveness. Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 31, 2012 Full Review Barbara VanDenburgh Arizona Republic A quiet, narratively layered period drama with a focus squarely on character. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 16, 2012 Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Rigorous and solemn... [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 7.5/10 Oct 4, 2022 Full Review Stephen Saito Moveable Fest "Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai" offers a reason to rejoice, allowing Miike to stretch his abilities in a film that's deliberately paced, but moving nonetheless in invoking an emotion rarely seen in his films before: compassion. Dec 17, 2018 Full Review Isabel Stevens ViewLondon 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. Rated: 2/5 Aug 27, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Removing the top knot fight scenes killed the reboot for me. It really missed the mark on the energy at the end. Where is the maniacal laughter of a man who has lost everything, and now gets the last laugh by exposing the facade of samurai honor? Where are the cries of him being a madman? Why did Takashi change the final fight scene so he only had a bamboo sword? A vengeful show of violence, bloodshed, and mockery were supposed to usher in the final act of hara kiri ever committed in that house. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Such an interesting start, such a slow and drab end. Thought I'd bought the classic, turns out I hadn't oops. Better go looking for it again. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie has a beginning and ending that are wonderful pieces of storytelling and are as engrossing as the middle of the movie is dull and tedious. Truly, the entire middle of the movie could have been excised and replaced with a two minute speech filling in the details, and been a far better entertainment experience. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Slow paced but worth the watch Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/24/20 Full Review isaac m Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai is more dramatic than an action movie. At least this movie didn't disappoint me. I love the direction of Takashi Miike, the dramatic sequences and the story. The bloody seppuku sequences were too hard to watch but it is part of the samurai's code of honor. Overall, Kara-Kiri; Death of a Samurai is a good remake of an old classic from Japan. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member original was better than this crap Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A samurai (Ebizô Ichikawa) asks permission to commit ritual suicide in the courtyard of a prominent feudal lord and hears the gruesome tale of what happened to a comrade who made a similar request several months earlier.
      Director
      Takashi Miike
      Screenwriter
      Kikumi Yamagishi
      Distributor
      Tribeca Film
      Production Co
      Oriental Light and Magic, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Kôdansha, Dentsu
      Genre
      History, Drama
      Original Language
      Japanese
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 20, 2012, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 22, 2013
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $60.2K
      Runtime
      2h 6m
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