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Title: Hara-Kiri
Post by: Hulot on June 02, 2014, 09:49:46 PM
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Ichimei / Hara-Kiri Year 2011 Director Takashi Miike With Koji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka Genre Drama
In Japanese DVD New Video NNVG280810
Overview
Seeking an honorable end, poverty-stricken samurai Hanshiro requests to commit hara-kiri in the courtyard of a feudal lord’s estate. Trying to dismiss Hanshiro’s wish to save face, the lord recounts the tragic story of a similar plea years ago from a young ronin.
Takashi Miike, is one of the most interesting of modern Japanese directors, and this film is lovely to look at from beginning to end. Not quite the perfection of Kobayashi's 1962 original...when Miike steps away from his trademark flamboyance he is in essence a conservative filmmaker; whereas Kobayashi's film was about the rewriting of history by authority, Miike's is simply a plaintive cry against injustice. Some great moments. Really powerful.
Rating 4/5
Title: Re: Hara-Kiri
Post by: Mustrum_Ridcully on June 03, 2014, 12:01:59 AM
For me Miike is to cinema what McDonald's is to cooking. He is the master of industrialised film making, delivering us up to 8 (!!) productions per year.
I like the occasional Big Mac though, so my all-time favourite Miike is one of his 2001 productions.