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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Name: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2011-10-15
Duration: 128 min
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Ichikawa Ebizo XI, Eita Nagayama, Hikari Mitsushima, Naoto Takenaka

Japanese Cinema20112h 8mJapaneseTop 64% of Japanese Cinema grosses

32Standing

166th of 224 in Japanese Cinema

Reported gross: 35
Audience rating: 41
Momentum: 17

Out-grossed 35% of Japanese Cinema releases with reported figures ($5M).
Momentum in the 17th percentile.
Audience rating 7.2 from 212 votes, the 41st percentile.

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Cost: Not on record
Took: $5M

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The picture

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.

Released: 15 October 2011
Runtime: 2h 8m
Language: Japanese
Industry: Japanese Cinema

Top billedAll 27 credits

Koji YakushoKageyu
Ichikawa Ebizo XIHanshirô Tsugumo
Eita NagayamaMotome
Hikari MitsushimaMiho
Naoto TakenakaTajiri
Kazuki NamiokaUmanosuke Kawabe

Made by

Director: Takashi Miike
Screenplay: Kikumi Yamagishi
Original Music Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Director of Photography: Nobuyasu Kita
Producer: Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Kensuke Zushi, Jeremy Thomas, Shingo Sekine, Tōichirō Shiraishi, Yasushi Uchida, Shinjiro Yokoyama

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