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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.  An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord. Actors Kôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka, Hikari Mitsushima, Eita, Ebizô Ichikawa, Hirofumi Arai, Kazuki Namioka, Takashi Sasano, Ayumu Saitô, Goro Daimon, Takehiro Hira, Baijaku Nakamura, Yoshihisa Amano & Ippei Takahashi Director Takashi Miike Certificate 18 years and over Year 2011 Languages Japanese Subtitles English Duration 2 hours and 2 minutes (approx)

Maverick Japanese director Miike Takashi directs this period samurai film, a remake of Kobayashi Masaki's 1962 classic 'Hara-Kiri'. In 17th century Japan, a samurai called Hanshiro (Ichikawa Ebizô) turns up at the Li household to request permission to commit ritual suicide after falling into shameful poverty. Suspicious of Hanshiro's motives, Li boss Kageyu (Yakusho Koji) tries to dissuade him from his path by telling him of the horrific fate of the last ronin to have made this request, a young man called Motome (Eita). Hanshiro appears undeterred, but as his own story unfolds in flashback it becomes clear that his true motives are very different from those he first declared.