Harakiri
Cinestudio’s Samurai Sundays: Remembering Tatsuya Nakadai series continues with Harakiri (1962, NR), Masaki Kobayashi’s powerful drama about a masterless samurai who arrives at a feudal lord’s estate requesting permission to commit ritual suicide. Starring Nakadai in one of his most acclaimed performances, this classic challenges the samurai code of honor while exposing the cruelty and hypocrisy beneath its traditions.
