Director(s): Masaki Kobayashi Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Shima Iwashita, Rentaro Mikuni Rated: NR (Not Rated) Languages: Japanese Subtitles: English Regional Code: Region 1 Screen: Color Length: 133 minutes Studio: Criterion Collection SKU: HAR110

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Disc One New, restored high-definition digital transfer * Exclusive video introduction by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie * Original theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitle translation * Disc Two Rare excerpt of a Directors Guild of Japan * video interview with director Masaki Kobayashi, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda (Double Suicide) * New video interviews with legendary star Tatsuya Nakadai and acclaimed screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto * Poster gallery * Plus: A new 32-page booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar John Mellen and a reprint of her 1972 interview with Kobayashi. Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property. Iyi's clans men, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for charity, try to force him to eviscerate himself - but they have underestimated his honor and his past. Winner of the 1963 Cannes Film Festival's Special Jury Prize, Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri is a scathing denouncement of feudal authority and hypocrisy.