Harakiri What Makes This Movie Great Episode 16

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Sign up for my newsletter. Youtube channel updates, written reviews, and exclusive content -- free! -- http://eepurl.com/hbfI6v • Twitter: / drjoshmatthews • Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshmatthews/ • • Ranked #33 on imdb.com, Harakiri is one of the most famous and beloved samurai movies. It's about seppuku, the Japanese ritual-suicide system. • Set in the 1600s, it's a movie that nevertheless about the modern world (circa 1962). The director, Masaki Kobayashi, is here up to discussing how powerful rulers unjustly use systems and traditions to maintain power at the expense of weaker or poorer people. • This video will introduce you to Harakiri and some of its major ideas. • See joshmatthews.org for more great movie criticism.

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