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 seppuku (self-inflicted disembowelment). An elder warrior seeks admittance to the house of a feudal lord to commit the act. There, he learns of the fate of his son-in-law.
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Tatsuya Nakadai | Hanshiro Tsugumo |
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Akira Ishihama | Motome Chijiiwa |
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Shima Iwashita | Miho Tsugumo |
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Tetsuro Tamba | Hikokuro Omodaka |
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Masao Mishima | Tango Inaba |
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Ichirô Nakatani | Hayato Yazaki |
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Kei Sato | Masakazu |
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Yoshio Inaba | Jinai Chijiiwa |
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Hisashi Igawa | Retainer |
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Toru Takeuchi | Retainer |
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Yoshirô Aoki | Umenosuke Kawabe |
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Tatsuo Matsumura | Seibei |
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Akiji Kobayashi | Ii Clan Retainer |
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Kôichi Hayashi | |
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Ryutaro Gomi | General |
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Jo Azumi | Ichiro Shimmen |
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Nakajiro Tomita | |
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Shichisaburo Amatsu | Retainer |
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Kenzo Tanaka | |
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Shin Nakahara | |
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Tsuneo Ikeda | |
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Minoru Miyagi | |
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Takaaki Kadota | |
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Ichirô Yuki | |
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Gen Takasugi |
| Director | Masaki Kobayashi |
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| Writer | Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Shinobu Hashimoto | |
| Producer | Tatsuo Hosoya, Gin'ichi Kishimoto, Makoto Naito, Tsugio Saitô | |
| Musician | Tôru Takemitsu | |
| Photography | Yoshio Miyajima | |
| Edition | Criterion Collection |
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| Packaging | Custom Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) Widescreen (16:9) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Mono [Japanese] Mono [Japanese] SUB [English] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Aug 23, 2005 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
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