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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Blu-Ray (UK Import)
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Presale - Release Date: 07.04.2025

Original title: 一命 / Ichimei

Year: 2011
Country: Japan
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5051429990620

Image: 2.39:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Age rating: 18

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kôji Yakusho, Hikari Mitsushima

Director: Takashi Miike


Synopsis:

With peaceful times in Edo resulting in wide ronin unemployment, poverty-stricken samurai, Hanshiro, calls on the House of Ii, seeking a noble end by ritual suicide. Hoping to dismiss the demand, headstrong lord, Kageyu, recounts the tragic story of another young ronin, forced into an agonizing suicide using a bamboo blade. But in doing so, reveals the horrifying fate of Hanshiro's loyal friend, Motome, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against his house.

Extras: -