Harakiri

Genres
History Action Drama
Release Date/Year
1962
Point of View
japan suicide asia samurai revenge poverty hara kiri ronin flashback 17th century shogunate
Description

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.