Cursed with a life of immortality, a samurai is tasked by a young girl to help avenge the death of her father. "Hara-kiri: The Death of a Samurai: Cannes 2011 Review", "Takashi Miike's Epic Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Might Be His Best Film Yet", JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I, Man, Next Natural Girl: 100 Nights in Yokohama, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hara-Kiri:_Death_of_a_Samurai&oldid=1010478711, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Japanese-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 March 2021, at 17:57. [2] The Village Voice's Michael Atkinson praised it describing it as "a melodramatic deepening and a grisly doubling-down of Kobayashi's great original". Suspecting that he was bluffing in order to obtain money, Ii's retainers scheduled the ritual immediately with Omodaka Hikokurō acting as second. This FAQ is empty. At first flow of the film looked too slow for me, but after warming up I did truly enjoy it. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Kageyu believes Hanshiro is bluffing and tells the tale of Motome, a young ronin who last came into the House of Ii and asked for the same … Miho her infant son fell ill and Motome sold his sword to cover costs for a while but when a doctor demanded 3 ryo in advance for treatment, Motome attempted the suicide bluff that led to his death. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Synopsis: An 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. Undaunted, the samurai begins to tell a story of his own, with an ending no one could see coming. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (一命, Ichimei) is a 2011 Japanese 3D jidaigeki drama film directed by Takashi Miike. A team of cops must protect an accused killer with a billion-yen bounty on his head. This is the film about life and how hard it can be. He says that a warrior's honor is not something just worn for show and knocks down the castle's decorative suit of armor before accepting death. But after being told the tragic story of another Samurai's suicide, that of Hanshiro's close friend Motome, Hanshiro sets out on a path of vengeance. Use the HTML below. Japanese. Drama. Add the first question. Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai directed by Takashi Miike for $9.99. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai. Each soldier was trained to fight to the death and was expected to die before suffering dishonor. Hanshiro brings the 3 ryo back to Saitō and challenges the other samurai with a bamboo sword, battling many of them capably. Best Movie You Discovered Thanks to IMDb? This film is a whole different kettle of fish entirely and it's almost as if Miike went deliberately out of his way to make an anti-13 ASSASSINS; there's no action here, none of the wonderfully choreographed fight scenes that made his previous film such a smash. Lord Ii returns to the castle and asks if the suit of armor has been polished, because it is the pride of the castle. The film is a 3D remake of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film Harakiri. This post was originally published 20 October, 2011. (2011). His next two requests as second, Matsuzaki and Kawabe, cannot be found either. 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. Of immortality, a Samurai ( 一命, Ichimei ) is a remake Masaki. Use the IMDb rating plugin his head s remake of Masaki Kobayashi 's film! 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