directed by: Takashi Miike, year: 2011
actors: Ichikawa Ebizō XI

Harakiri: Death of a Samurai is Takashi Miike's 2011 remake of the 1962 classic. Set in late Edo-period Japan, a weary ronin named Hanshiro Tsugumo arrives at a samurai house seeking to die by ritual seppuku, aiming to expose the clan's hypocrisy. What follows is a tightly wound meditation on honor, power, and vengeance, as past and present collide. Miike uses stark framing, restrained violence, and moral interrogations to create a haunting, morally fraught tragedy.

Edo Period, Drama, Samurai, Jidaigeki, Revenge, Remake