Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 2011 123movies

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Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 8,604
	77% | RottenTomatoes
	76/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 136 Popularity: 10.011 | TMDB

Reviews:

In this one, Miike doesn’t stand up against Kobayashi
Anyone with a more than passing interest in Japanese movies ought to watch Kobayashi’s 1962 version of Takaiguchi’s novel that this also is based on, and watch the intro by the Japanese film authority Donald Ritchie on the Criterion edition. Ritchie makes fully clear how Kobayashi here, as in other films, is talking through the historical tale about current issues he was passionate about, in this case lingering post-WWII authoritarianism in Japan and hollow bureaucracies, in his day as in the time of the early Tokugawa government; Miike doesn’t seem to have anything particularly urgent to say. Look at what Ritchie points out that Kobayashi’s version offers: the script by ace screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto who wrote Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai; the score by bold, influential experimentalist Toru Takemitsu; the strong and unifying symbolic use of empty samurai armor throughout; the career-defining lead performance by Tatsuya Nakadai; and the elegantly austere use of black and white cinematography.

Ironically Miike’s film also carries over Kobayashi’s one serious flaw – – an overindulgence in sentimentality and pathos in the flashback love story.

Miike, apparently seeking ‘respectability’ after all his entertaining ultra-violence with this staid remake/adaptation, also overdoes everything. He makes every scene too drawn-out and talky. He further overdoes the sentimentality, to the point that in his version becomes unbearably cloying, virtually unwatchable. Once again, 3D adds nothing; black and white was just what was needed. Less was and is more.

Whenever a filmmaker goes over familiar ground, adapting a book that has been adapted (and very well) before, he exposes himself to comparisons to the book and to the previous adaptation. Don’t get me wrong. Miike has plenty of skill. It is not that his ‘Hara- Kiri’ is a washout. It’s just that Kobayashi’s version is a true work of art, a film classic, in fact; and in comparison Miike’s is merely a competent effort and a pointless bid for respectability that was not needed. He is a master in his own realm. Surprisingly his last film before this, the juicy, action-historical blockbuster 13 Assassins, which I thoroughly enjoyed, also was an adaptation — of Eiichi Kudo’s little known samurai film of the same name. Thanks to ‘Wildgrounds’ (who compare the two Hara- Kiri films) for this info. Thanks also to Ben Parker on ‘CapitalNewYork’ for his detailed comparison of the two films; and to the Criterion Collection, for its print of Kobayashi’s ‘Hara-Kiri’ and Donald Ritchie’s informed introduction to it.

Hara Kiri: Death of a Samurai
A man appears at a samurai temple seeking permission to commit ritual suicide where he is told the tale of another who had asked the same thing not long before.

A wonderfully told tale of hardship and revenge. This is relatively free of spectacular action scenes but still tells an enthralling and sometimes quite depressing story that unwinds as the man tells his tale. It is also a pretty rare knock at samurai more generally which places honour before all else whatever the cost.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 2 hr 8 min (128 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Takashi Miike
Writer Kikumi Yamagishi, Yasuhiko Takiguchi
Actors Kôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka
Country Japan, United Kingdom
Awards 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Red One Camera, Zeiss and Angenieux Lenses
Laboratory Imagica Corporation, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Redcode RAW (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), D-Cinema (3-D version)