Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure@SRI-UNIX.ARPA From: mclure@SRI-UNIX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Hara Kiri Message-ID: <12121@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 19:45:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12121 Posted: Mon Sep 17 19:45:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 07:36:48 EDT Lines: 29 This is an advertisment for my favorite Samurai movie. It is showing Tuesday & Wednesday of this week at the New Varsity at 7:30pm. The name is "Hara Kiri". Below is the description, etc., from the New Varsity poster. Japan 1962, Special Jury Prize at Cannes, 1963, Subtitled, No Rating Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Stars Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita. A young unemployed samurai requests permission to commit seppuku on the grounds of a wealthy household, hoping to be given some money or a job. Instead, he is ruthlessly forced to carry through with the suicide. His father-in-law comes to avenge the young man's death, leading to a breath- taking climax of swordplay. If this is the movie I think it is (I saw one matching this description years ago), it is emotionally overwhelming, more so than the various Kurosawa-directed movies and other Samurai that I've seen, at least to me. If you're a Samurai fan, or don't like Samurai in general, give this one a shot. You might come out of the theatre exhausted as we all did at the end of the original Star Wars! Stuart