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The 47 Ronin(1941)

3h 43min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - With Daisuke Katō, Masao Shimizu, Ichikawa Utaemon, Isamu Kosugi, Mitsuko Miura, Seizaburō Kawazu, ...

Ran(1985)

K12
| 2h 40min | Action, Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 642 votes)

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryū, Mieko Harada, Peter, ...

13 Assassins(2010)

2h 21min | Adventure, Drama, Action
3.6/5 (with 474 votes)

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

Directed by Takashi Miike - With Kōji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Masachika Ichimura, Yuma Ishigaki, Yūsuke Iseya, Gorō Inagaki, ...

Harakiri(1962)

2h 15min | Action, Drama, History
4.2/5 (with 377 votes)

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Kei Satō, Rentarō Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurō Tamba, Yoshio Inaba, ...

Rising Sun(1993)

2h 5min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 315 votes)

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.

Directed by Philip Kaufman - With Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Tia Carrere, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ray Wise, ...
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai(2011)

2h 6min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 71 votes)

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Directed by Takashi Miike - With Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII, Eita Nagayama, Kōji Yakusho, Hikari Mitsushima, Naoto Takenaka, Munetaka Aoki, ...

47 Ronin(1962)

3h 27min | History, Drama, Action
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke. The ronin avenged their master's honor after patiently waiting and planning for over a year to kill Kira. In turn, the ronin were themselves forced to commit seppuku for committing the crime of murder.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki - With Akira Takarada, Makoto Satō, Toshirō Mifune, Akira Kubo, Takashi Shimura, Yūzō Kayama, ...

Hiroshima(2005)

1h 29min | Documentary, Drama
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.

Directed by Paul Wilmshurst

Scabbard Samurai(2011)

1h 43min | Action, Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

Kanjuro Nomi is an aging samurai who only has a scabbard. Deserting his lord to wander the land with his daughter Tae, Kanjuro is captured and sentenced to an unusual punishment: he has 30 days to bring a smile to the sad prince who has lost his mother — or else he must die.

Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto - With Itsuji Itao, Jun Kunimura, Sea Kumada

Ask This of Rikyu(2013)

2h 4min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's award-winning novel of the same name received the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 37th Montréal World Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival, the 30th Fumiko Yamaji Cultural Award and the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in nine categories, including Best Art Direction, Excellent Film and Excellent Actor.

Directed by Mitsutoshi Tanaka - With Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII, Miki Nakatani, Ichikawa Danjūrō XII, Yūsuke Iseya

Chushingura(1938)

2h 51min | History, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.

Female Harakiri: Celebration(1990)

58min | Horror
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A woman in a nurse’s outfit sits in a dark room. She kneels on a mat and looks over a knife, touching it with her fingers and examining it. She runs the knife over her stocking clad legs and contemplates suicide. She plunges the blade into her abdominal region and pulls it across.

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School Girl: Harakiri(1990)

45min | Horror
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A school girl kneels on her mat looking over an old photo album containing pictures of people committing seppuku. Becoming aroused by what she sees, she touches herself and licks her fingertips. She pulls out a knife of her own, takes off her uniform, and in a very fetishistic manner proceeds to slit open her stomach and then pull out her guts.

Female Harakiri: Glorious Death(1989)

45min | Horror
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Part of the Zankoku-bi: Onna harakiri 01 series.

Miss Mishima(2011)

14min | Horror
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Explores the ambiguity of sensations, the boundaries between pleasure and pain, a filmmaker's piece about death as the final fetish and the ritual suicide Seppuku.

White Clothing: Harakiri(1990)

45min | Horror
2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A black and white preface shows a woman in a traditional kimono climbing the stairs as WWII era Mitsubishi Zeros fly through the sky and footage of the Japanese military of the era is superimposed over the footage. She stops at the top of the stairs to say her prayers, rings a bell, and heads inside where the footage is shot in color. She unravels her kimono and rubs her face with the cloth before wrapping her blade and lovingly touching it. She pulls it across her stomach and slits herself open, falling to the mat. She crawls across the mat, dying, slipping in her own slick blood until she can't move anymore.

Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri(1990)

34min | Horror
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Directed by Masami Akita,who is also one of Japan's leading noise musicians under the name Merzbow. With a soundtrack by the director himself, this intense and ultra-gory seppuku film shows a young woman taking her own life by an act of ritual harakiri.

Directed by Masami Akita - With Yūri Sunohara, Asako Mochizuki, Chimuo Nureki

The Abe Clan(1995)

1h 34min | History, Drama, Action
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Beautiful Swordswomen: Double Seppuku(1990)

42min | Horror
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

The only difference with this one as opposed to the other "entries" - is this one has 2 girls committing suicide, and they are outdoors and wearing samurai style outfits as opposed to Japanese robes or some other "costume". Also, they stab themselves with samurai swords instead of the typical shorter ritual knives...