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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Action & Adventure |
Format | Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Blu-ray |
Contributor | Baijaku Nakamura, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka, Koji Yakusho, Jeremy Thomas, Hikari Mitsushima, Shigeji Maeda, Takashi Miike, Eita, Misako Saka, Ebizo Ichikawa, Takashi Sasano, Ebizô Ichikawa See more |
Language | Japanese |
Runtime | 2 hours and 8 minutes |
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From visionary auteur Takashi Miike (13 ASSASSINS) comes the story of a mysterious samurai who arrives at the doorstep of his feudal lord, requesting an honorable death by ritual suicide in his courtyard. The lord threatens him with the brutal tale of Motome, a desperate young ronin who made a similar request with ulterior motives, only to meet a grisly end. Undaunted, the samurai begins to tell a story of his own, with an ending no one could see coming. With stunning cinematography and gripping performances, HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI is a thrilling exploration of revenge, honor, and individuality in the face of oppressive power.
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A superbly acted revenger's tragedy --The Guardian UK
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.77:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 10022340
- Director : Takashi Miike
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Blu-ray
- Run time : 2 hours and 8 minutes
- Release date : January 22, 2013
- Actors : Baijaku Nakamura, Ebizo Ichikawa, Takashi Sasano, Ebizô Ichikawa, Eita
- Subtitles: : English, Japanese
- Producers : Jeremy Thomas, Shigeji Maeda, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Misako Saka
- Studio : Tribeca
- ASIN : B0090SVDRW
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #13,395 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,625 in Action & Adventure Blu-ray Discs
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The most salient difference, nevertheless, needs to be expressed. The original starred Tatsuyo Nakadai, whose ferocity and intensity made him the Dark counterpart to the lustiness and mirth of Toshiro Mifune. Nobody could match Nakadai in this role; Ebizo Ichikawa earns my admiration for trying.
The cinematography is spectacular and often breath taking, with a depth of atmosphere seldom seen in modern films.
The only complaint this one would have is with the closed caption translations of Japanese (as an example, "I don't understand" was often translated as "I am sorry" and in the context of the dialogue, such was not correct. There are other examples however, for those who do not speak Japanese, the presented dialogue generally conveyed the story adequately).
This one is sorry that he can not give this film more than five stars. It is a truly wonderful film far surpassing what one might expect from a film in this genre. Miike-san did a subperb job.
If you haven't watched the original, please do that before reading this because of spoilers ahead.
This movie was good, but has had some of the key points/ideas of the plot changed, which weren't necessarily bad, in fact if you watch the original first and then watch this one there is one point change where you'll be like "Awh awesome!" But most of the changes lead to a slightly different story and it's not as good over all. I like the different take, but not as good. Imagine the different parallel Spiderman verses, this is a different Harakiri verse.
The original flips back and forth between past and present a good number of times with perfect reasons and timing for each flip. The editing is amazing. This tells the story in such a better way and allows for such better dialogue and scenes that aren't in this remake because they're stuck in the past.
This remake starts off with short present, long past, ending present. (Minus a day dream at the end.) In other words, it was dumbed down so it was easier to follow I guess.
Good - There is some great lighting at times, great shots, and great music/sound effects. These don't make it better as the original had all that.
- Father brings the money back
- If you've seen the original, the father's sword in this was a "oh wow!/Holy crap!" moment that shows off some amazing skill. But this is also kinda a negative since it wasn't done exactly right.
Bad - No memorable/quote-able lines, maybe one at best.
-Story is basically told all at once and then ending, not enough back in forth from past to present.
- Goes from asking Motome to marry Miho to baby; no wedding like original
- Miho doesn't feed Motome and tell him "They taste better with someone."
- The translation isn't as good as the original. At times the word "Squire" appears when they had said the person's name... Squire isn't used in the original at all if I remember correctly.
- The food line was done by the father in the original and made more sense with the translation.
- He fights all 3 samurai at once vs at different times, less dialogue from past to present, short fight
- This one does not to as good of a job at talking about honor and valor compared to the original.
- One of the biggest issues I have with this one, is he says he comes to perform Harakiri/Seppuku and he doesn't!!! In the original he does!!!
- In this one he is killed by blades, just standing there without a sword... I'm not sure how honor works with that, or attacking someone with just a bamboo blade... but in the original they have to use guns to kill him! Now that shows such a lack of honor.
- He throws someone into the armor in this one vs trashing it himself in the original.
- When Motome gets his funeral robes it doesn't make as much sense in this one; in the original that scene is much better and makes more sense.
- When Motome is return home father has to chase after the guys, the original scene is much better and makes more sense as to how the father knew who to go after.
- Motome asks for money in this one? Kinda ok but more so not...
- When did Motome sell his swords? The original portrays this wayyyy better
- Cool that father sold his sword, awesome twist, but why? And then he didn't be like Motome and commit harakiri/seppuku with it? What a let down!
- Father doesn't mention why he did this, why he want through this whole "charade"
- The three topknots weren't ordered to perform harakiri/seppuku
- We don't hear about how they covered up the deaths of these guys
- No one else dies?
- The king comes back and can tell the armor was moved and so he asks if it was polished and he gets lied to I guess?
- I'm probably missing some other things that make me go >8( as I couldn't believe they missed that... the more I think this only deserves two stars...
The original has better editing, sound, acting, scenes, dialogue, sequences, back and forth from past to present moments... This movie was good, and I kinda liked some of the changes but on some of the changes they missed just a few more parts to make it a good change. Like with the food scene I mentioned above where Miho doesn't feed her dead husband and say the line, where the father doesn't perform harakiri/seppuku with the bamboo blade, nor does he take as many dishonorable people with him to the grave.
This movie could have been better with the changes they made and possibly been just as great as the first if they would have done things better. Still worth a watch, but only after watching the original.