Title: Harakiri Seppuku /
Authors: Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-; Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-; Ishihama, Akira.; Iwashita, Shima, 1941-; Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.
Publisher: Criterion,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Samurai Drama.; Suicide Japan Drama.; Rōnin Drama.
Abstract: 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 hara-kiri.