An unemployed samurai in seventeenth-century Japan visits a feudal lord threatening harakiri in the hope that he will be employed, but his request is denied and the warrior is honor-bound to carry out the ritual suicide.
General Note: In Japanese with English subtitles.LSC 56.51For private home use only.Production notes inserted in container.Special features include: interviews with Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shinobu Hashimoto, introduction by Donald Richie, essay by Joan Mellen, theatrical trailer, poster gallery.Widescreen version.Originally released as motion picture in 1962.Based on a novel by Yasuhiko Takiguchi.Disc label title.DVDs.