Masaki Kobayashi: HARAKIRI (1962, 133M) the Version of This Goldenrod Handout Sent out in Our Monday Mailing, and the One Online, Has Hot Links
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October 8, 2019 (XXXIX: 7) Masaki Kobayashi: HARAKIRI (1962, 133m) The version of this Goldenrod Handout sent out in our Monday mailing, and the one online, has hot links. Spelling and Style—use of italics, quotation marks or nothing at all for titles, e.g.—follows the form of the sources. DIRECTOR Masaki Kobayashi WRITING Shinobu Hashimoto wrote the screenplay from a novel by Yasuhiko Takiguchi. PRODUCER Tatsuo Hosoya MUSIC Tôru Takemitsu CINEMATOGRAPHY Yoshio Miyajima EDITING Hisashi Sagara The film was the winter of the Jury Special Prize and nominated for the Palm d’Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. CAST Tatsuya Nakadai...Tsugumo Hanshirō (1979), Tokyo Trial* (Documentary) (1983), and Rentarō Mikuni...Saitō Kageyu Shokutaku no nai ie* (1985). He also wrote the screenplays Akira Ishihama...Chijiiwa Motome for A Broken Drum (1949) and The Yotsuda Phantom Shima Iwashita...Tsugumo Miho (1949). Tetsurō Tamba...Omodaka Hikokuro *Also wrote Ichiro Nakatani...Yazaki Hayato Masao Mishima...Inaba Tango SHINOBU HASHIMOTO (b. April 18, 1918 in Hyogo Kei Satō...Fukushima Masakatsu Prefecture, Japan—d. July 19, 2018 (age 100) in Tokyo, Yoshio Inaba...Chijiiwa Jinai Japan) was a Japanese screenwriter (71 credits). A frequent Yoshiro Aoki...Kawabe Umenosuke collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for such internationally acclaimed films as Rashomon (1950) MASAKI KOBAYASHI (b. February 14, 1916 in and Seven Samurai (1954). These are some of the other Hokkaido, Japan—d. October 4, 1996 (age 80) in Tokyo, films he wrote for: Ikiru (1952), Eagle of the Pacific (1953), Japan) was a Japanese film director (22 credits) and I Live in Fear (1955), Darkness at Noon (1956), Throne of screenwriter (9 credits), best known for writing and Blood (1957), Stakeout (1958), The Hidden Fortress (1958), directing the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959– A Whistle in My Heart (1959), I Want to Be a Shellfish 1961), as well as the samurai films Harakiri (1962), for (1959), The Lost Alibi (1960), Storm Over the Pacific which he won the Jury Special Prize and was nominated (1960), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), The Magnificent Seven for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and Samurai Rebellion (1960), Ghost Story of Kakui Street (1961), Happyakuman (1967), and Kwaidan (1964), for which he, once again, seki ni idomu otoko (1961), Harakiri (1962), Attack both won the Jury Special Prize and was nominated for the Squadron! (1963), Brand of Evil (1964), The Outrage Palm d’Or. He was also nominated for the Palm d’Or for (1964), Revenge (1964), Samurai Assassin (1965), The Nihon no seishun (1968). He also directed: Youth of the Son Great White Tower (1966), Samurai Rebellion (1967), (1952), Sincerity (1953), Three Loves* (1954), Somewhere Japan's Longest Day (1967), Hell in the Pacific (1968), The Under the Broad Sky (1954), Beautiful Days (1955), Last Day of Hsianyang (1968), Hitokiri (1969), The Fountainhead (1956), The Thick-Walled Room (1956), I Shadow Within (1970), Dodes'ka-den (1970), The Human Will Buy You (1956), Black River (1957), The Inheritance Revolution (1973), Yellow Dog (1973), Village of Eight (1962), Inn of Evil (1971), The Fossil (1974), Moeru aki Kobayashi—HARAKIRI—2 Gravestones (1977), Lake of Illusions (1982), and I Want to the Break of Dawn (2012), The Human Trust (2013), Be a Shellfish (2008). Giovanni's Island (2014), Lear on the Shore (2017), and Henkan Koshonin Itsuka, Okinawa o YOSHIO MIYAJIMA (b. Torimodosu (2018). February 3, 1910 in Nagono, Japan—d. RENTARŌ MIKUNI (b. January February 21, 1998) was a 20, 1923 in Gunma, Japan—d. Japanese cinematographer April 14, 2013 (age 90) in Inagi, (45 credits). He worked Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese film frequently with Masaki actor (190 credits). The 1987 film Kobayashi. These are some Shinran: Path to Purity, which he of the films he worked on: wrote and directed, was awarded Utanô yononaka (1936), the Jury Prize and was nominated Jinsei keiba (1938), War for the Palm d’Or at the Cannes and Peace (1947), Violence (1952), Before Dawn (1953), Film Festival. These are some of the films he acted in: The The Beauty and the Dragon (1955), Wedding Day (1956), Good Fairy (1951), Boyhood (1951), Fireworks Over the Sea Joyu (1956), Behold Thy Son (1957), Glow of the Firefly (1951), Sword for Hire (1952), Woman of Shanghai (1952), (1958), Naked Sun (1958), The Human Condition I: No The Blue Revolution (1953), Eagle of the Pacific (1953), The Greater Love (1959), The Human Condition II: Road to Lovers (1953), Till We Meet Again (1955), The Burmese Eternity (1959), The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Harp (1956), Stepbrothers (1957), The Eagle and the Hawk Prayer (1961), Love Under the Crucifix (1962), Harakiri (1957), Face in the Dark (1958), The Outsiders (1958), (1962), Kwaidan (1964), Live Your Own Way (1967), Ballad of the Cart (1959), The Catch (1961), The Empire of Passion (1978), Akô-jô danzetsu (1978), and Revolutionary (1962), The Outcast (1962), Harakiri Shikake-nin Baian (1981). (1962), Hell's Kitchen (1962), Escape from Hell (1963), Kwaidan (1964), A Fugitive from the Past (1965), Zatoichi TATSUYA NAKADAI (b. December 13, 1932 in Tokyo, the Outlaw (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), Japan) is a Japanese film actor (162 credits) famous for the City of Beasts (1970), Men and War (1970), Shadow of wide variety of characters he has portrayed and many Deception (1971), Yomigaeru daichi (1971), Confessions collaborations with seminal Japanese film directors, such as Among Actresses (1971), Zatoichi at Large (1972), Journey Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Teshigahara. He was featured Into Solitude (1972), Coup d'Etat (1973), The Possessed in 11 films directed by Masaki Kobayashi, including The (1976), Never Give Up (1978), Sailor Suit and Machine Human Condition trilogy (1959-1961), wherein he starred Gun (1981), The Street of Desire (1984), A Promise (1986), as the lead character Kaji, plus Harakiri (1962), Samurai Beyond the Shining Sea (1986), River of Fireflies (1987), A Rebellion (1967) and Kwaidan (1964). These are some of Taxing Woman's Return (1988), Wuthering Heights (1988), the films he appeared in: Seven Samurai (1954), Hi no tori Shiny Moss (1992), The Friends (1994), Turning Point (1956), Hadashi no seishun (1956), The Thick-Walled Room (1994), Free and Easy 18 (2007), Free and Easy 20 (2009), (1956), Ôban (1957), Untamed Woman (1957), A Someday (2011), Chronicle of My Mother (2011), and Dangerous Hero (1957), Black River (1957), Kampai! Miai Kuchita teoshi guruma (2014). kekkon (1958), A Boy and Three Mothers (1958), Conflagration (1958), Naked Sun (1958), When a Woman AKIRA ISHIHAMA (b. January 29, 1935 in Tokyo, Ascends the Stairs (1960), Yojimbo (1961), Sanjuro (1962), Japan) is a Japanese film actor (57 credits). These are some The Inheritance (1962), Love Under the Crucifix (1962), of the films he has appeared in: Boyhood (1951), Fireworks High and Low (1963), The Sword of Doom (1966), Today Over the Sea (1951), Youth of the Son (1952), Nami We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968), Battle of the Japan Sea (1952), Sincerity (1953), Somewhere Under the Broad Sky (1969), Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970), Inn of Evil (1954), The Tattered Wings (1955), Christ in Bronze (1971), The Gate of Youth (1975), Blue Christmas (1978), (1955), White Devilfish (1956), The Rose on His Arm Hunter in the Dark (1979), Kagemusha (1980), Willful (1956), Namida (1956), The Unbalanced Wheel (1957), Murder (1981), Return from the River Kwai (1989), The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959), Farewell Summer of the Moonlight Sonata (1993), East Meets West to Spring (1959), Marry a Millionaire (1959), Towering (1995), After the Rain (1999), Spellbound (1999), Waves (1960), Bitter Spirit (1961), The Bridge Between Vengeance for Sale (2011), To Dance with the White Dog (1962), Harakiri (1962), Yopparai tengoku (1962), Day- (2012), Yamato (2015), Zatoichi: The Last (2010), Until Kobayashi—HARAKIRI—3 Dream (1964), The Snow Woman (1968), Orgies of Edo Blackmail Is My Life (1968), Black Lizard (1968), The 5- (1969), Devil's Flute (1979), and Itosato (2018). Man Army (1969), Yakuza hijoshi - mushyo kyodai (1969), Yakuza bangaichi: massatsu (1969), Crimson Bat - Oichi: SHIMA IWASHITA (b. January 3, 1941 in Tokyo, Wanted, Dead or Alive (1970), The Scandalous Adventures Japan) is a Japanese actress who has appeared in about 100 of Buraikan (1970), Men and War (1970), Postwar Secrets films and many TV productions (117 credits). She is (1970), The Wolves (1971), Silence (1971), Under the Flag married to film director Masahiro Shinoda, in whose films of the Rising Sun (1972), The Water Margin (1972), Tidal she has frequently appeared. These are some of the films Wave (1973), The Castle of Sand (1974), Karate Inferno she has appeared in: Dry Lake (1960), Late Autumn (1974), Karate Bear Fighter (1975), Seven Nights in Japan (1960), Killers on Parade (1961), Epitaph to My Love (1976), Zero Pilot (1976), The Alaska Story (1977), Message (1961), A Roaring Trade (1962), Kono ni uruwashi (1962), from Space (1978), Kôtei no inai hachigatsu (1978), Never Harakiri (1962), An Autumn Afternoon (1962), Kigeki: Give Up (1978), Hunter in the Dark (1979), Flames of Detatoko shôbu - 'Chinjarara monogatari' yori (1962), Glory Blood (1981), Samurai Reincarnation (1981), The Wild on the Summit (1962), Sing, Young People! (1963), Kyoto Daisy (1981), The Imperial Navy (1981), Suspicion (1982), (1963), Legend of a Duel to the Death (1963), Samurai from Conquest (1982), Marco Polo (TV Mini-Series) (1983), Nowhere (1964), Assassination