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Harakiri
MEANRANK
89/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #18
- IMDb #33
- Google retired #552
- Rotten Tomatoes #5
- Metacritic #166
- Letterboxd #1
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #58
- Metacritic Audience #76
- Criticker #1
- Douban #14
- Kinopoisk #112
- AlloCiné #68
- Trakt #43
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 82, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 96.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →During a period of peace in 17th-century Japan, a masterless samurai arrives at the estate of a powerful feudal lord. He calmly requests permission to commit ritual suicide within their courtyard. As the clan's officials prepare to observe the ceremony, the samurai begins to tell them the intricate and tragic story of his life, slowly revealing his true connection to the house and the real motive behind his solemn request.
Details
- Director
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Writer
- Shinobu Hashimoto
- Studio
- Shochiku
- Released
- 15 September 1962
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rated
- NR
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Cast
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Awards
9 wins & 3 nominations total
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