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From: mclure@SRI-UNIX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Hara Kiri
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Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 19:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 17 19:45:00 1984
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    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