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Story
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate’s breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri (self-inflicted disembowelment). An elder warrior, Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) seeks admittance to the house of a feudal lord to commit the act. There, he learns of the fate of his son-in-law, a young samurai who sought work at the house but was instead barbarically forced to commit traditional hara-kiri in an excruciating manner with a dull bamboo blade. In flashbacks the samurai tells the tragic story of his son-in-law, and how he was forced to sell his real sword to support his sick wife and child. Tsugumo thus sets in motion a tense showdown of revenge against the house.
movie langauges
Japanese
movie countries
Japan
movie cast
Shinobu Hashimoto
Nakajirô Tomita
Tatsuo Matsumura
Akiji Kobayashi
Shima Iwashita
Ryûtarô Gomi
Hisashi Igawa
Kei Satô
Yoshio Inaba
Tatsuya Nakadai
Ichirô Nakatani
Akira Ishihama
Masaki Kobayashi
Rentarô Mikuni
Kenzô Tanaka
Tetsurô Tanba
Yoshirô Aoki
Yasuhiko Takiguchi
Masao Mishima
Tôru Takeuchi
Kôichi Hayashi
Jô Azumi
Shichisaburô Amatsu
Shin Nakahara
Tsuneo Ikeda
Minoru Miyagi
Takaaki Kadota
Ichirô Yûki
Gen Takasugi
Satoshi Nishida
movie genre
Action, Drama, Mystery
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