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	Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture - Harakiri Film notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Every appeal Harakiri makes to the senses has been carefully calculated to plant seeds in the mind that continue to germinate and grow long after we have left the theater.
		The story of Harakiri unfolds at a time when the content and spirit of the code were still being worked out, leaving ample room for conflicting interpretations.
		Harakiri is an inspiring example of the aesthetic and intellectual satisfactions made possible by a thoroughly conscious interrogation of history, tradition, and form.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/ealac/dkc/chushingura/harakiri_film_notes.html (706 words)

	Notherby's :: Harakiri - Criterion Collection
		In Harakiri, known as Seppuku, in Japan, the audience learns about the socioeconomic and political changes that a ronin faced after the loss of a position while suffering from poverty and hunger.
		Harakiri offers much more than mere sword fight, as Kobayashi allows the audience to reflect over the social application of the Bushido and the abuse of the samurai code.
		Unlike Kurosawa's rousing samurai epics, this is an uncompromisingly tragic tale, exposing the hypocrisy of 17th-century Japanese society with its story of a family destroyed by the cruelty of feudalism toward warriors in peacetime.
	northerbys.com /store/B0009WIE2A/Harakiri___Criterion_Collection.html (2208 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Harakiri: The Criterion Collection
		Judging from its title, its key art, or even a sketch of its narrative, 1962's Harakiri would seem to be of a piece with the other samurai films from the 1960s that audiences have revered for decades: stylish, kinetic, and entertaining.
		Harakiri begins with the arrival of Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) at the gates of the Iyi clan's compound.
		In Harakiri he alternates between static moments of tense silence and judiciously chosen camera moves — gliding tracking shots, slow zooms, and the occasional quick pan — which serve to heighten emotion at key moments in the film.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/h/harakiri_cc.q.shtml (1055 words)

	Harakiri Page
		In his masterful Harakiri, he deftly juxtaposed the stark fl of the aristocracy's kimonos with the brilliant white of the courtyard's sand, lending the film's tonal scheme a symbolic quality.
		After an unemployed warrior is forced by a feudal lord to commit harakiri, his father in-law returns the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual.
		With stunning wide-screen cinematography and riveting performances, Harakiri achieves the power and passion of the world's greatest tragedies.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/seppuku.html (863 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Harakiri
		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.
		Harakiri is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=302 (222 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi
		However, in an era of peace with few employment prospects for samurai in the dwindling local feudal clans that were allowed to remain after the centralization of power by the Tokugawa shogunate, the request has become commonplace.
		Based on a novel by Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Harakiri is a scathing indictment on the hypocrisy, repression, and barbarism of codified behavior.
		By illustrating the class stratification and imposed social conformity fostered by the Tokugawa shogunate (1600-1867) as a means of retaining and centralizing authority, Kobayashi presents a harrowing indictment of the ingrained cultural legacy of coercive, outmoded rituals, chauvinism, and blind obedience that resulted in the inhumanity and senseless tragedy of the Pacific War.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/kobayashi.html (631 words)

	Opus - Harakiri
		While waiting for the arrangements to be made, the head of the Clan recounts a similar story that took place earlier that year.
		Ultimately, Chijiiwa is forced to commit harakiri in order to prove his honor, and in the film's most shocking scene, disembowels himself with his bamboo blade.
		"Harakiri" may not be as famous as Kurosawa and Mifune's samurai pictures, but it's a great one nonetheless, well worth the time spent seeking it out (I'd love to see this reissued on DVD).
	www.opuszine.com /movies/review.html?reviewID=216 (887 words)

	Harakiri :: Biography
		Harakiri's three demos show the transition from their early metal/hardcore beginnings to their current death metal realm.
		Available is the debut cd release, "Reverence For Madness", which contains 8 songs of violent death metal insanity, the 6 song mini-cd released on Cyberdine 243, "Virtuous Symptoms" and the new full-length, "Twilight of the Idols" released on Willowtip.
		The Harakiri sound comes from a wide array of influences including all varieties of death, grind, fl metal, hardcore, and malt liquor.
	www.harakiri666.com /index.asp?section=Biography (173 words)

	Tower Records - Harakiri - Harakiri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harakiri was born in 1998 having as integrants, to their actual formation.
		In 2000, having its integrants no more than 19 years old, the band was already making tours in the interior of Tucuman and Jujuy, bringing its music to a totally different public whose answer was even bigger than the found it in they own city (where they were spreading a CD with four songs).
		Nowadays, after many years of experimentation and more than forty songs, through its search, Harakiri impose theirself not as a Rock band, neither Hard, nor Blues, but as a result of all styles that went through the songs of their repertoire; making a new proposal.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=3334697 (347 words)

	Harakiri - Video(VHS)
		In this grim yet exquisitely composed film, Kobayashi delves into the world of the 17th-century samurai, examining "the honor in death--and the death of honor" (Time).
		After an unemployed samurai is forced to commit harakiri before a feudal lord, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual.
		Tensions grow to excruciating levels, then find thrilling release as the elder warrior strikes out one last time against a cruelly rigid society.
	www.wensstyle.com /product/6303261736.html (2305 words)

	Harakiri Movie: Harakiri DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Structured in a series of flashbacks, the film opens in a period of serenity that has brought about a consolidation of power in Japan, resulting in the release of many samurai from their feudal obligations.
		Arguably Kobayashi's masterpiece, this savage attack on the hypocrisy, cowardice, cruelty, and ultimate emptiness of the institution of the samurai warrior features one of Nakadai's greatest performances as the disturbingly intense swordsman.
		Masaki Kobayahi's violent masterpiece exposes the harsh 17th-century samurai code of honor, which involves the agonizing suicide ritual of harakiri.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/037429207321IE (276 words)

	Amazon.com: Harakiri (1964) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HARAKIRI tells of the chain of events set into motion when a destitute samurai goes to one of the remaining clans and offers to commit suicide according to the harakiri ritual.
		His real intent was to get a handout once the Iyi clan elder had seen his determination.
		Harakiri is a samurai masterpiece, and one of the best films to come out of Japan in the 60s.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303261736?v=glance (3154 words)

	Home Page
		UPDATED 5th Sept 2005: Harakiri Karaoke -the honourable way to die (by public humiliation).
		Harakiri Karaoke now has a ludicrous CD and Tape available, entitled "Desecrating the Grave of Punk" - 10 tracks, inc. a few mentioned below, available from Ruptured Ambitions (see web link) for about the price of a pint, or less, I dunno, depends where you live.
		It began at a friend's birthday (quite probably ex-friend now, one would assume)when The Bus Station Loonies were booked to play but he rest of the band couldn't make it.
	harakiri.karaoke.iwarp.com (648 words)

	Harakiri - 'Virtuous Symptoms' review @ into-obscurity.com[enter the underground]
		The six song CDep on Cyberdine Records from Indiana's Harakiri is good beyond words.
		Take the technicality of Cryptopsy and Nile minus their drummers (this is not a slag on Harakiri's drummer, rather a testament to the drummers of the other two bands) and cross it with the straight ahead brutality of early death metal and you'd have Harakiri.
		They want to see blood and guts and they will continue to attack with a full-on audal assault of monstrous death metal until the ultimate end.
	www.into-obscurity.com /reviews/reviews.asp?reviewID=380 (290 words)

	Harakiri [US SE 2-Disc Set] DVD \| dir.: Masaki Kobayashi \| cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, ...
		After a samurai is forced to commit harakiri before a lord, his father-in-law returns to the scene, seemingly to play out the same agonizing suicide ritual.
		In this grim yet exquisitely composed film, Kobayashi Masaki delves into the world of the 17th-century samurai, examining "the honor in death--and the death of honor" (Time).
		The effect is almost unbearably suspenseful, leading to an explosive climax of supreme defiance and samurai swordplay, erupting from a battle of wills, called bluffs, and hotly defended honour.
	www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/filmID.535494/qx/details.htm (374 words)

	Seppuku (1962) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Plot Summary: Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty...
		Trivia: Seppuku or Harakiri (the US working title) both mean to commit suicide in Japenese.
		Quotes: Hanshiro Tsugumo: Swordsmanship untested in battle is like swimming on land.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0056058 (398 words)

	Seppuku - Ritual Suicide
		The custom was so deeply entrenched, however, that it continued, and in 1663, at the urging of Lord Nobutsuna Matsudaira of Izu, the shogunate government issued another, stronger edict, prohibiting ritual suicide.
		This was followed up by very stern punishment for any lord who allowed any of his followers to commit harakiri or seppuku.
		Still the practice continued throughout the long Tokugawa reign, but it declined considerably as time went by.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /duchamp/410/seppuku.html (624 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: Fire
		Nor was Lord Asano “beheaded” for this breach of etiquette—in the sense that we in the West understand the term—since it is unthinkable that such a punishment would be imposed on someone of Asano’s rank.
		Rather Lord Asano was sentenced to commit seppuku (harakiri), ritual suicide, one of the five grades of punishment for wrongdoers among the samurai class.
		All aspects of the seppuku ritual were prescribed with precision: apparel, site, time, witnesses, inspector, and assistant.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/000788.html (1019 words)

	HRK - Harakiri, BCL2-interacting protein (contains only BH3 domain) - Cancer GeneticsWeb
		Disclaimer: This site is for educational purposes only; it can not be used in diagnosis or treatment.
		HRK; Harakiri, BCL2-interacting protein (contains only BH3 domain)
		harakiri, a novel regulator of cell death, encodes a protein that activates apoptosis and interacts selectively with survival-promoting proteins Bcl-2 and Bcl-X(L) Related articles
	www.cancerindex.org /geneweb/HRK.htm (120 words)

	Magill's Survey of Cinema: HARAKIRI; SEPPUKU; HARA KIRI@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An extremely elaborate story ensues, emphasizing the nobility of rituals such as hara-kiri as well as their potential emptiness.
		Summary: The intricately plotted HARAKIRI is set in Edo, Japan, in 1630, at a time when civil strife in that country had brought an end to numerous...
		The above preview is from Magill's Survey of Cinema, June 15, 1995.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:42602697&refid=ip_almanac_hf (208 words)

	Harakiri
		Before resuming his role as pulp anti-hero Dwight in next year's Sin City 2, this dangerously handsome Brit stars as an adulterer helplessly embroiled in flmail in Derailed.
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Harakiri to receive a rating.
		(1964/1962) Gorgeous BandW Widescreen print of HARAKIRI may be at a film fest near you!
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/harakiri (348 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Harakiri : Review
		Indulging his taste for Japanese exotica, this early Fritz Lang film is a loose adaptation of the opera Madame Butterfly.
		When O-Take-San's father, sentenced to death by harakiri, reaches out to her as she walks away from him for the last time, his simple gesture calls up more emotion than any line of ever dialogue could.
		An uncharacteristic film for Lang in that it strays from his normal themes and settings, it nonetheless illustrates his considerable skill as a director, even at this early stage in his career.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/105779/review.jhtml (219 words)

	AAP General News (Australia): VIC: Unions "harakiri" attitude spoiling jobs: Kennett@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		AAP General News (Australia): VIC: Unions "harakiri" attitude spoiling jobs: Kennett@ HighBeam Research
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		GEELONG, Vic, May 24 AAP - A harakiri attitude among Victorian union leaders was destroying
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:21716597&refid=holomed_1 (202 words)

	Harakiri - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	DI Forums Board - Capricorn - Harakiri (Secret Drum Version)
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	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - two more "Onna harakiri sakuhinshû" 2-on-1 DVDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The DVD Maniacs - Forum - two more "Onna harakiri sakuhinshû" 2-on-1 DVDs
		Fuji Kikaku has released four more of the videos in its "Zankoku-bi: onna harakiri" AV-horror collection on 2-on-1 DVDs.
		and Nyotai harakiri emaki 2: muma no yûwaku (GEN-015)]
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/showthread.php?p=154514 (84 words)

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	DVD Empire - Item - Harakiri (Criterion) / DVD-Video
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		1963 Cannes Film Festival's Special Jury Prize, Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri is
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