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Harakiri (切腹; Seppuku, Japan, 1962, Theater)
The art theater in town, The Belcourt, started its Samurai Film Festival last night with Kobayashi Masaki’s brilliant Seppuku (English title, Harakiri, which means the same thing — ritual disembowlment — but cruder, “belly-slitting”). It’s not what you might think. There’s not much swordplay, or even belly-slitting until the end. Instead, this is a [...]