Harakiri (Criterion) (1962) Rating: Starring: Shima Iwashita, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba Director: Masaki Kobayashi Category: Avant Garde, Foreign, Classics, Classics Studio: Criterion Subtitles: English Length: 133 mins Want to buy?           Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property. Iyi's clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for charity, try to force him to eviscerate himself - but they have underestimated his honor and his past. Winner of the 1963 Cannes Film Festival's Special Jury Prize, Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri is a scathing denouncement of feudal authority and hypocrisy.