The first 3D title ever to be shown in official selection at the Cannes Film Festival.
This film is a remake of Harakiri (1962), one of the great classic samurai films. Harakiri, also known as seppuku, is a ritual suicide procedure used by samurai to attain an honorable and "magnificent" death.
It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the first 3D film to do so. The Village Voice's Michael Atkinson praised it describing it as "a melodramatic deepening and a grisly doubling-down of Kobayashi's great original." Composer and pop star Toshiaki Nakazawa wrote the original score.
Seppuki is the formal, respectful term used in historical and ritual contexts. It evokes honor, ritual and Bushido (the samurai code of honor), often accompanied by a sense of solemn duty or redemption. Using seppuku is like saying someone "passed away", it's respectful, subdued, and dignified.
Hara-kiri is a more blunt way of saying the same act, literally "belly cutting." It's seen as coarse, more graphic, and lacks the ceremonial connotation. Using hara-kiri is closer to saying someone "kicked the bucket", crude, visceral, even vulgar in some contexts.
Hara-kiri is a more blunt way of saying the same act, literally "belly cutting." It's seen as coarse, more graphic, and lacks the ceremonial connotation. Using hara-kiri is closer to saying someone "kicked the bucket", crude, visceral, even vulgar in some contexts.
Hara-kiri : Mort d'un samouraï (2011) (Ichimei) is a Japanese 3D jidaigeki drama film directed by Takashi Miike. It was produced by Jeremy Thomas and Toshiaki Nakazawa, who previously teamed with Miike on his 2010 film 13 Assassins (2010). The film is a 3D remake of Masaki Kobayashi's film Harakiri (1962).