www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/ A Masterpiece, one of the best movies ever made, "Harakiri". A must watch movie. Initially released on 1962 in Japan. Directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
For those who are confused why the samurais aren't doing more to attack him, it's because no one wants to be the one guy who dies so the rest of the group can overwhelm him. In theory, if they all charged they would kill him but some would die in the process which none of them want to do because most people don't really want to die
Yeah being a samurai is a tough job. They cannot just bash him to death like an angry mob either; that would perhaps be okay if he was a petty criminal. But now he is evidently a respectable warrior, so killing him in a dishonorable way would dishonor his killer(-s) as well.
This is the Oriental wisdom. But it's quite opposite to western way of thinking or war. That's why west succeeded in colonising the East without much of a struggle. But unfortunately the book Art of War spoiled them and in world wars it is reflected. Instead of making it quick, short and decisive they dragged on for years
@@vijayvijay4123if the art of war was an effective text the Mongols, Tibetans, Black Yi, and Manchus wouldn't have made so much sport of the Chinese for centuries.
@@Ian-yf7uf Well a simple military text isn't going to be the be all and end all of a civlization's defence policy, especially when other factors like politics and economics get involved. When shit hits the fan for an empire, that's pretty much it no matter how competent their generals or fighers. Be that as it may, one can argue compared to other great empires of antiquity such as Persia and Rome, China had the best run of the lot. Afterall, Iran was only independent for how long and where is Rome?
@@daryndrake4393 every 300 years or so Chinese history is just peasant revolution resulting in mass cannibalism or a steppe invader becoming the new emperor.
This is one of if not the best Japanese tragedy of this genre. I love this move. The sadness and outrage over his son's death with the bamboo sword. The scorn and ridicule they heaped on him, was devastating. They in their cushy world couldn't understand why he made the sacrifice. Beautiful and sorrowful. 10of 10!
Evidence of how dangerous one man can be when he has nothing to lose. I love how this man is limping, can barley stand, with a hundred men surrounding him and they are all scared stiff afraid to attack.
There is a point to be made why he lasted so long: The Kageyu samurai, while all "Traditionally trained" had probably never been in a real fight. Tsugumo was a veteran of the recent war. The film makes it clear that many Samurai who fought for the other side are now without a master, and that Samurai on the winning side got complacent. It's basically saying that all these fancy rich samurai are all about talking big game about honor but are unable to back it up. So it took them so long to kill Tsugomo, finally resorting to gunfire, because he, unlike them, was a true Samurai and a true warrior. Spoilers below: The film actually goes to great lengths to point out the hypocrisy of the Samurai caste and the Bushido code. Most poignantly put in one of the flashbacks when Tsugumo is being shown Chijiwas bamboo sword and says "It would never even had occurred to me to sell it." Saying that the code corrupts the humanity of the follower, for what good is a steel sword when you can't even buy food or medicine to your loved ones.
The composition of the shots is utterly beautiful. Each frame is a painting of black and stark white, with a million shades of grey. There really is nothing like the classic era Samurai films. For them, black and white wasn't a limitation. It was a whole pallete of its own colour.
One of the best films I've ever watched. The story is very sad, but the ruthless revenge is executed perfectly. Loved the final showdown. Well done to all who performed and participated in it.
This is one of the best movie fight scenes ever. And in was filmed the around the same time James Bond was doing campy karate chops for American and British audiences.
The ''Karate Chop'' is a legit and extremely dangerous technique. You can seriously injure and even kill somebody with it,because the nerve cluster in the neck is one of the body's ''weak points''.Special forces are actually tought it for use in combat and it's strictly banned from every type of ''combat sport'',even full-contact Karate or UFC matches. A secret operative like 007 would definetely use it during a mission. This here on the other hand is complete BS. It's choreographed to look extra dramatic.In reality,he would have been dead in less than a minute. They have him cornered not once,but several times but are just standing around like idiots.''But but... they were in shock & awe,because of his ferociousness yada yada....''More BS,even if 1-2 were shocked,there would be definetely a more experienced fighter among them,who would take initiative and lead the attack. In reality,no one can take on multiple opponents,specially when they're coming from all sides.NOBODY is that good.
@@doublep1980 films don't have to have to be about realism mate, if you can't appreciate the art and cinematography on display here than I feel sad for you.
@@doublep1980 His fate was sealed, but none of his assailants wanted to die with him, which would have been inevitable if they had simply piled on. This was not a crude melée but a complex puzzle, moving pieces, creating new situations seeking to create the optimal line of attack. Their standing off makes perfect sense.
You have to see the whole film - and the death of this samurai's son - to appreciate what led to this conclusion. Haven't seen this film in years - and forgot how important it was that he was killed by rifle at the moment he was committing his own ritual harakiri. Everything about this film - acting, music, costumes, scenery, and even weather (the wind blowing during his last samurai duel) - was chosen perfectly.
I always felt that his throwing to the ground the samurai armor, and the fact that he was killed by firearms was symbolic of Japan's leaving the old feudal ways and taking up the power of the west from then on.
that's a good way to see it, but like Son Goku said, this was in another century, way before that. I feel like him throwing the armor and being killed by samurais is a complement of the message of the movie, wich is to show how a discipline based in honor has little of it after all, and it's just something that you show to the outside but doesn't really matter when your house and your honor itself it's in danger. Him throwing the armor it's a representation of how he doesn't care about their families traditions, because they dishonor the real samurai and honor code. Him being killed by firearms is a way to show how they can't stop him in the honorable way, proving his point and the whole critique of the movie.
There's another point too, that he shows to all of them that he is a true samurai, but they aren't. That's why he throws the armor, symbol of the clan, to the ground and choose to be killed as a real samurai, by the sword, his sword. The clan members abdicated the samurai's values when they couldn't kill them in a fight, and chosen to use firearms.
when gun was introduced for the first time in europe, european knight also made fun of gun. they had pride in their fencing, archery, spear etc. japanese knight aka samurai's reaction was also same.
Him throwing the armor - the red armor being the pride of the clan he opposes - is a physical demonstration/proof that the armor is hollow, like their honor, a physical representaion with nothing beneath it. The use of firearms, as in Seven Samurai, is symbolic both of the passing of the age of the samurai, but also of the destruction of nobility through dishonorable means.
People are saying "why don't we overwhelm this guy and just knock him off". Right these people are human and they don't want to get injured by recklessly charging a guy who already killed 3 men.
My thoughts exactly. They may be warriors, but they know some of them are going to die in "overwhelming" an angry swords man. Just being injured back then would often be expected to die. Let's not forget, it's a movie, notwithstanding it is a brilliant one.
I love how all the swordsmen fighting using the same fighting style. The antihero is using a rural unconventional style that they've NOT familiar with, thus they are all hesitant because they can't anticipate what his counter stroke will be. Awesome! That is why they are hesitant to rush him and let other guys attack trying to glean what his moves and countermoves will be.
It would be dishonorable to rush him. Also dishonorable to attack from behind or without warning. Some Japanese of the warrior class believed the attack on Pearl Harbor was dishonorable, there was no warning of the attack, so it was contrary to Bushido.
I've never seen this film, as you get older you finally realise you'll never see, read, go to and do all the things you would, but I loved how at the end he decided his last action would be his choice but they took it from him and used guns, a weapon from the modern encroaching world. Gotta watch the whole film now.
Nakadai brings the intensity of emotion and physical strain in the character. His raspy breathing almost sounds like a low growling wolf. For all its exaggerated movements, expressions, and slow-paced poses indicative of Kabuki plays, the sounds the actors make and the dynamic and messy action seems genuine and immersive.
...or the 'expertise' of people online who are good video game players and think that makes them experts on real combat? Not trying to be offensive, but I've had way too many 13-year old "Special Forces Experts" yelling in my headset when all I want is to play a game...
@@mikeching6374 while i do agree with you.. it doesn't change what he said being right hahah the difference between training and the real thing is huge. im a martial artist, i fight in muay thai and krabi krabong... or swords.
At this time, none of these servants could stab the end with a sword, and had to kill the samurai with the help of a gun. In other words, they lost to this samurai. この時、井伊家の家臣たちは、結局誰も刀でとどめを刺すことはできず、鉄砲の力を借りてこの侍を殺さざるを得なかった。 つまり、彼らはこの侍に負けたのです。
There's a line in the film 13 Assassins that I think really fits this scene: "You Samurai are useless, and you're even more useless when you congregate in large numbers."
I love how down and dirty this fight is In modern movies people tear through a hundered people one at a time and its meaningless You feel how desperate this is.
Modern cinema has ruined this scene for me. The perfectly paced tension, the defensive stances used to keep a large crowd at bay, the samurai that refuse to attack all at once out of fear of being the next one to die, the slow burn delivered via "death by 1,000 cuts"... All that my ape brain can process is how slowly this scene gets dragged out for the sake of realism, and I hate myself for that.
I saw this on Facebook, and I was quite happy with the blood effects, given that it's early 1960s, whereas in the US, people in Westerns got shot with puffs of smoke, then fell down clean.
The whole scene derives audience a particular comprehsion-It feels as if the man is dancing, he lets the sword possess him. The true swordsman is the one who entrust his soul to his sword-explaining why he was almost invincible fighting against a whole army.
I got a chance to see this in a theatre (the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto) with a really crisp print and the sound about as loud as it could get without distorting. Truly a big screen experience. Obviously this scene was incredible to watch at scale. The 'Moonwalk' esque side shuffle move got a lot of satisfied laughs of joy from the audience, as well as Hanshiro saying a Japanese word that sounded like 'Ho..Ho...ho..' in an earlier sequence.
Long my favorite film of many favorite films. Gives true meaning to the words "indomitable" and "revolutionary.". Nakadai's character rips the mask off of the charade and gives the lie to the cruel code of "honor" that actually is bereft of a more earthy, battle-tested, and profound courage. He shows that a house built on cruelty and fealty to the system, devoid of individualism and bereft of compassion is an empty vessel. Yet history is written by the victors. A critique of Japanese society writ large.
The question is whether the true samurai is demonstrated in cruelty, brutality and mindless loyalty or in mercy, compassion and understanding. And anybody who knows even a snippet of Japanese history knows that although they were also samurai, ronin were treated like vermin throughout a large chunk of the Edo period.
My favorite Japanese movie of all times.. Perhaps this is the truest 'samurai' ever to be on a movie, a character really worthy of mentioning.. Hardcore swordfighter light a boss...
+John Tran He doesn't serve himself and he isn't just looking for revenge; he gives his life as a protest against the misuse of bushido by men who only twist it to serve their own ends, which is one of the purest uses of seppuku. He's a samurai in the truest sense of the word.
I think people forget just how good the film score is. Just the droning. HRUMMMM. Every so often is so intense. It’s so subtle but it adds so much to the scene.
This is the first time ive ever watched something and felt like i was in the Situation the Protagonist was in... im 41 btw... and ive seen a LOT of Movies and played a LOT of video games.
@@88feji just like the other person said, although I don't get it, that in the early strike, one of the samurai striking the samurai's weapon (naginata?) instead of the samurai himself.
The scene in the room with the 2 guys and the movements through the window is like a a dream or looking at post modern artwork! So weird yet fascinating! Great choreo! So dramatic is like watching Japanese Opera. The Lord of the house is a coward!
He's not the lord. He's the chief councilor of the Ii clan, in charge of running things while the lord of the Ii clan (major vassal of the tokugawa shogunate) is out of town for business. At the end of the film, when the lord returns, the councilor doesn't tell him about this disturbing "incident" & instead, tells him everything was fine while he was away .
He won at the end. He had the satisfaction of killing several several and wounding many of that house's samurai and committing harakiri with the gunshots as the second's killing stroke.
@@tatan5053 Seppuku is very ritualized. You need to pick a second to decapitate you, get fine clothes, have a requested last meal, compose a death poem, and so on. Harakiri is belly cutting the same, but it's a more impromptu suicide that doesn't demand 12 hours of preparation.
A Great scene is when the senior samurai is alone the room and can hear the fighting. What was to be a quick death has turned into a fight with a demon. He doesn't show it openly, but he is afraid of what's unleashed outside.
This was one of my first Japanese classics I watched after Seven Samurai got me interested in Japanese cinema. It blew my mind, and it has left an impression.
What the.....I actually loved watching these movies in my youth. That was about 50 or 60 so years ago. Today when I see something like this, if not only that I had idolized Samurai then, I cannot help but ask, was it necessary to take out one man through this? Against a "multitude"?
I hate making list, but this has to be on my top 5 (maybe even top 3) movies of all time. Sure, it ends with a romanticized sword fight, but the points and messaging is so thought provoking. I love it!
I liked the talk the chancellor had with his right hand man. He basically confirmed what the samurai said by ordering a cover-up. When his right hand man hesitated the chancellor told him"You know the ways of the world as well!". In other words, this would ruin the clans reputation. In the end honor was mostly a farce.
They all are afraid of him because he didn’t only beat all the samurai main players in that house, he just took their top knots. Showing his true skill, and that none of those samurai are willing to show their faces and are feigning sickness and injury to not shame themselves. He didn’t just kill them, he left them alive to live with the aftermath that’s gonna come, the whole country will hear how the most noble and skilled warriors were bested by one man. How they made a man who was just trying to earn some money for his sick and dying family, and they made him commit seppuku with a bamboo sword and didn’t even give him the chance to explain his situation. You really feel for his son in law and grand son and daughter. This movie was great.
I agree with so many of these comments about the symbolism, cinematography, and him looking possessed. What's cool is at 2:55 when he looks sideways, because of the lowers quality/BW film, it always seems like his eyes glaze over and go white.
Kudos to the intensity or passion Japanese have towards everything in life. Their cultural ethos are highest in the world. Be it war, obedience, revenge, work, love or family they give their best without holding anything back. Success of a people or country depends on this emotion. Thanks. Awesome.
Not gonna lie, the only reason im watching these movies now is because of GoT... But holy hell are they good, I've basically been hypnotised by them for a week lol.
the most important part of the film they left out: they wash away all trace of the incident and cover it up with a lie. all that remains is the house journal - lies.
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If you’re talking solely about pacing, Harakiri is up there with the very best. The story unfolds in such a perfectly paced way, it’s incredible
You can totally tell Tarantino's epics are written with this same structure and pace
For those who are confused why the samurais aren't doing more to attack him, it's because no one wants to be the one guy who dies so the rest of the group can overwhelm him. In theory, if they all charged they would kill him but some would die in the process which none of them want to do because most people don't really want to die
Yeah being a samurai is a tough job. They cannot just bash him to death like an angry mob either; that would perhaps be okay if he was a petty criminal. But now he is evidently a respectable warrior, so killing him in a dishonorable way would dishonor his killer(-s) as well.
This is the Oriental wisdom.
But it's quite opposite to western way of thinking or war.
That's why west succeeded in colonising the East without much of a struggle. But unfortunately the book Art of War spoiled them and in world wars it is reflected. Instead of making it quick, short and decisive they dragged on for years
@@vijayvijay4123if the art of war was an effective text the Mongols, Tibetans, Black Yi, and Manchus wouldn't have made so much sport of the Chinese for centuries.
@@Ian-yf7uf Well a simple military text isn't going to be the be all and end all of a civlization's defence policy, especially when other factors like politics and economics get involved. When shit hits the fan for an empire, that's pretty much it no matter how competent their generals or fighers. Be that as it may, one can argue compared to other great empires of antiquity such as Persia and Rome, China had the best run of the lot. Afterall, Iran was only independent for how long and where is Rome?
@@daryndrake4393 every 300 years or so Chinese history is just peasant revolution resulting in mass cannibalism or a steppe invader becoming the new emperor.
This is one of if not the best Japanese tragedy of this genre. I love this move. The sadness and outrage over his son's death with the bamboo sword. The scorn and ridicule they heaped on him, was devastating. They in their cushy world couldn't understand why he made the sacrifice. Beautiful and sorrowful. 10of 10!
This has been remade recently, hasn't it?
@@jameshentry8865 yes, brilliantly. same title
The remake sucks. The classic is infinitely superior.
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@@winstondelaurier8239 The remake is horrible and is catered to be more action oriented for Western Audiences. It's movie slop.
Evidence of how dangerous one man can be when he has nothing to lose. I love how this man is limping, can barley stand, with a hundred men surrounding him and they are all scared stiff afraid to attack.
WIth one spirit 1 can fight 10, 10 can fight 100, 100 can fight a 1000 book of five rings Miyamoto Muasahi
@@PantherxEddy until those guns come out. Lol let's not act as if we didn't see that part
@Mike Green just further proved what Tsugomo was saying about the samurai & their code being a bullshit facade. Brilliant movie.
Its a movie :D thats not evidence xD
Evidence of how the film industry can make it look like one man can kill men that severely outnumber him.
There is a point to be made why he lasted so long: The Kageyu samurai, while all "Traditionally trained" had probably never been in a real fight. Tsugumo was a veteran of the recent war. The film makes it clear that many Samurai who fought for the other side are now without a master, and that Samurai on the winning side got complacent. It's basically saying that all these fancy rich samurai are all about talking big game about honor but are unable to back it up. So it took them so long to kill Tsugomo, finally resorting to gunfire, because he, unlike them, was a true Samurai and a true warrior.
Spoilers below:
The film actually goes to great lengths to point out the hypocrisy of the Samurai caste and the Bushido code. Most poignantly put in one of the flashbacks when Tsugumo is being shown Chijiwas bamboo sword and says "It would never even had occurred to me to sell it." Saying that the code corrupts the humanity of the follower, for what good is a steel sword when you can't even buy food or medicine to your loved ones.
i really like how you didnt understand anything about the whole ordeal.
Nah. I think I'm very much on the mark.
@@benjaminjane93 ok lmao
@@alisemihcamkerten2974 Sorry you didn't get the movie.
@@benjaminjane93 savage..
How this movie isn't better known or appreciated is beyond me.
bert221221 because it’s Japanese.
Really?
I never watch Kagemusha to the end. It always breaks my heart.
Cause people only care about african kings and shitz
@@mingchenwei1978 sorry..is that a racial slur...??
Dem camera work and cinematography looks so modern as hell.
Conematography has degraded over time imo
Hug Groin
The Japanese were just advanced.
@@adityabadole7221 no it isn't lol
It doesnt,modern its shit
This is the most High-Art gore film I’ve seen.
The composition of the shots is utterly beautiful. Each frame is a painting of black and stark white, with a million shades of grey. There really is nothing like the classic era Samurai films. For them, black and white wasn't a limitation. It was a whole pallete of its own colour.
Take a look at the original black and white concept for Fury Road -- George Miller thought the same thing
One of the best films I've ever watched. The story is very sad, but the ruthless revenge is executed perfectly. Loved the final showdown. Well done to all who performed and participated in it.
They are all dead.
Just saying it was a good film.
Many are still alive, including the great Tatsuya Nakadai!
This is one of the best movie fight scenes ever. And in was filmed the around the same time James Bond was doing campy karate chops for American and British audiences.
The ''Karate Chop'' is a legit and extremely dangerous technique. You can seriously injure and even kill somebody with it,because the nerve cluster in the neck is one of the body's ''weak points''.Special forces are actually tought it for use in combat and it's strictly banned from every type of ''combat sport'',even full-contact Karate or UFC matches. A secret operative like 007 would definetely use it during a mission.
This here on the other hand is complete BS. It's choreographed to look extra dramatic.In reality,he would have been dead in less than a minute. They have him cornered not once,but several times but are just standing around like idiots.''But but... they were in shock & awe,because of his ferociousness yada yada....''More BS,even if 1-2 were shocked,there would be definetely a more experienced fighter among them,who would take initiative and lead the attack. In reality,no one can take on multiple opponents,specially when they're coming from all sides.NOBODY is that good.
@@doublep1980 films don't have to have to be about realism mate, if you can't appreciate the art and cinematography on display here than I feel sad for you.
@@doublep1980 an excellent example for a person who clearly does not understand cinematography and film-making art
@@doublep1980 His fate was sealed, but none of his assailants wanted to die with him, which would have been inevitable if they had simply piled on. This was not a crude melée but a complex puzzle, moving pieces, creating new situations seeking to create the optimal line of attack. Their standing off makes perfect sense.
@@doublep1980 I agree with you on the karate chop (also has a variant known as a Rabbit Punch). But not in agreement with your second point.
The tension in these scenes is incredible.
This is an absolute powerhouse of storytelling. They slowly unravel the clues you need to arrive at the final judgment.
The words, "well, well." Growls if I've ever heard one..
You have to see the whole film - and the death of this samurai's son - to appreciate what led to this conclusion. Haven't seen this film in years - and forgot how important it was that he was killed by rifle at the moment he was committing his own ritual harakiri. Everything about this film - acting, music, costumes, scenery, and even weather (the wind blowing during his last samurai duel) - was chosen perfectly.
I always felt that his throwing to the ground the samurai armor, and the fact that he was killed by firearms was symbolic of Japan's leaving the old feudal ways and taking up the power of the west from then on.
that's a good way to see it, but like Son Goku said, this was in another century, way before that. I feel like him throwing the armor and being killed by samurais is a complement of the message of the movie, wich is to show how a discipline based in honor has little of it after all, and it's just something that you show to the outside but doesn't really matter when your house and your honor itself it's in danger. Him throwing the armor it's a representation of how he doesn't care about their families traditions, because they dishonor the real samurai and honor code. Him being killed by firearms is a way to show how they can't stop him in the honorable way, proving his point and the whole critique of the movie.
There's another point too, that he shows to all of them that he is a true samurai, but they aren't. That's why he throws the armor, symbol of the clan, to the ground and choose to be killed as a real samurai, by the sword, his sword. The clan members abdicated the samurai's values when they couldn't kill them in a fight, and chosen to use firearms.
That's really well put, Sweet BountyFox Potatoes.
when gun was introduced for the first time in europe, european knight also made fun of gun.
they had pride in their fencing, archery, spear etc.
japanese knight aka samurai's reaction was also same.
Him throwing the armor - the red armor being the pride of the clan he opposes - is a physical demonstration/proof that the armor is hollow, like their honor, a physical representaion with nothing beneath it. The use of firearms, as in Seven Samurai, is symbolic both of the passing of the age of the samurai, but also of the destruction of nobility through dishonorable means.
Simply one of the best endings to one of the best movies of all time
Best movie I've ever seen, and I've found it by accident. The fact it's not more popular is a crime.
No need cgi, pure drama , cinematography
Do you feel smart for pointing out a movie from 1962 has no cgi?
bruh it doesn’t matter
Well guess what, modern movies are the same and tend to use CGI :D
@@firstlast6437 Well It’s Smart to point out movies that are artistic.
Cause today, the fight and set would be CG.
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People are saying "why don't we overwhelm this guy and just knock him off". Right these people are human and they don't want to get injured by recklessly charging a guy who already killed 3 men.
It's movie sword fighting, it's about the drama and this movie does it very well.
My thoughts exactly. They may be warriors, but they know some of them are going to die in "overwhelming" an angry swords man. Just being injured back then would often be expected to die. Let's not forget, it's a movie, notwithstanding it is a brilliant one.
Exit myth more important if real.
Or accidentally stab each other, for that matter.
Why risk your life needlessly in what is assumingely an overwhelming victory?
I love how all the swordsmen fighting using the same fighting style. The antihero is using a rural unconventional style that they've NOT familiar with, thus they are all hesitant because they can't anticipate what his counter stroke will be. Awesome! That is why they are hesitant to rush him and let other guys attack trying to glean what his moves and countermoves will be.
It would be dishonorable to rush him. Also dishonorable to attack from behind or without warning. Some Japanese of the warrior class believed the attack on Pearl Harbor was dishonorable, there was no warning of the attack, so it was contrary to Bushido.
@@Will-Max God, no wonder they initially had trouble clashing with Mongols.
I've never seen this film, as you get older you finally realise you'll never see, read, go to and do all the things you would, but I loved how at the end he decided his last action would be his choice but they took it from him and used guns, a weapon from the modern encroaching world.
Gotta watch the whole film now.
Nakadai brings the intensity of emotion and physical strain in the character. His raspy breathing almost sounds like a low growling wolf. For all its exaggerated movements, expressions, and slow-paced poses indicative of Kabuki plays, the sounds the actors make and the dynamic and messy action seems genuine and immersive.
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the best to ever grace Japanese cinema.
He's 90 years old.
he and mikuni lentaro are both brilliant actors in 60s japan.mikuni played the gokarou in this film
@@user-pk7tr8vm6s , yes, most definitely. I have tremendous respect for Rentaro-san, as well.
Watching this movie so many times I never noticed that at the end of this fight he performed sepuku. He retained his honor till the very end.
Please, you don't need to watch the movie several to see that as it's quite evident...
@@augustin5611😂
This is a masterclass in building tension in the midst of a fight scene
There's always a richness to black and white movies.
Separation?
Like Human Centipede 2 for example
Swordsmanship untested in battle is like the art of swimming mastered on dry land.
...or the 'expertise' of people online who are good video game players and think that makes them experts on real combat?
Not trying to be offensive, but I've had way too many 13-year old "Special Forces Experts" yelling in my headset when all I want is to play a game...
Well said Mr.@@mikeching6374, many who have not experienced battle, have no clue, only big ego and mouth to match.
You need to watch the film Sanjuro, listen to the words of the old woman about glistening swords.
@@mikeching6374 while i do agree with you.. it doesn't change what he said being right hahah the difference between training and the real thing is huge. im a martial artist, i fight in muay thai and krabi krabong... or swords.
alex hernandez are you gecko45 reincarnate sir?
At this time, none of these servants could stab the end with a sword, and had to kill the samurai with the help of a gun.
In other words, they lost to this samurai.
この時、井伊家の家臣たちは、結局誰も刀でとどめを刺すことはできず、鉄砲の力を借りてこの侍を殺さざるを得なかった。
つまり、彼らはこの侍に負けたのです。
There's a line in the film 13 Assassins that I think really fits this scene: "You Samurai are useless, and you're even more useless when you congregate in large numbers."
I love how down and dirty this fight is
In modern movies people tear through a hundered people one at a time and its meaningless
You feel how desperate this is.
Not only that, but the main character must also fight against fatigue as well.
Modern cinema has ruined this scene for me. The perfectly paced tension, the defensive stances used to keep a large crowd at bay, the samurai that refuse to attack all at once out of fear of being the next one to die, the slow burn delivered via "death by 1,000 cuts"...
All that my ape brain can process is how slowly this scene gets dragged out for the sake of realism, and I hate myself for that.
I saw this on Facebook, and I was quite happy with the blood effects, given that it's early 1960s, whereas in the US, people in Westerns got shot with puffs of smoke, then fell down clean.
Seems like you just have poor taste in movies, General.
The whole scene derives audience a particular comprehsion-It feels as if the man is dancing, he lets the sword possess him. The true swordsman is the one who entrust his soul to his sword-explaining why he was almost invincible fighting against a whole army.
Completely wrong
Nakadai Tatsuya. Here he has the eyes of an ancient brush painting.
I got a chance to see this in a theatre (the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto) with a really crisp print and the sound about as loud as it could get without distorting. Truly a big screen experience. Obviously this scene was incredible to watch at scale. The 'Moonwalk' esque side shuffle move got a lot of satisfied laughs of joy from the audience, as well as Hanshiro saying a Japanese word that sounded like 'Ho..Ho...ho..' in an earlier sequence.
What a treat! Nothing like a theater with an appreciative audience.
Long my favorite film of many favorite films. Gives true meaning to the words "indomitable" and "revolutionary.". Nakadai's character rips the mask off of the charade and gives the lie to the cruel code of "honor" that actually is bereft of a more earthy, battle-tested, and profound courage. He shows that a house built on cruelty and fealty to the system, devoid of individualism and bereft of compassion is an empty vessel. Yet history is written by the victors. A critique of Japanese society writ large.
a profound observation...humans have been played by the evil one for a very long time...
Well said
Yeah, I read the Criterion analysis, too. :)
The question is whether the true samurai is demonstrated in cruelty, brutality and mindless loyalty or in mercy, compassion and understanding. And anybody who knows even a snippet of Japanese history knows that although they were also samurai, ronin were treated like vermin throughout a large chunk of the Edo period.
@@jeffersonjjohnson Ha. Haven't read the one you are referring to . . . can you share it?
What an amazing movie, and it still feels fresh. Gotta rewatch again soon.
My favorite Japanese movie of all times.. Perhaps this is the truest 'samurai' ever to be on a movie, a character really worthy of mentioning.. Hardcore swordfighter light a boss...
Screaming Fox I wouldn't say he's a samurai. A samurai serves other people. This man only serves himself. I would just consider him as a badass ronin.
+John Tran He doesn't serve himself and he isn't just looking for revenge; he gives his life as a protest against the misuse of bushido by men who only twist it to serve their own ends, which is one of the purest uses of seppuku. He's a samurai in the truest sense of the word.
He's a ronin, his master died as u can see in the flashbacks
Yes, he's legally a ronin, but he serves more than himself.
Mine too.
I think people forget just how good the film score is. Just the droning. HRUMMMM. Every so often is so intense. It’s so subtle but it adds so much to the scene.
This is the first time ive ever watched something and felt like i was in the Situation the Protagonist was in...
im 41 btw... and ive seen a LOT of Movies and played a LOT of video games.
He fights like a man possessed.
Now you understand shinto.
But I don't get why they don't form a circle so some of them can attack him from behind while he's fending off another guy ?
@@88feji that’s why he kept running to put his back against the wall so they couldn’t do that
@@88feji just like the other person said, although I don't get it, that in the early strike, one of the samurai striking the samurai's weapon (naginata?) instead of the samurai himself.
Really makes you see just how much of modern action cinema takes its cues directly from this.
so much better than the remake.
Riveting and simply awesome... the emotions depicted with the samurai and the swords legendary.
Japan was making a good in cinematography back then
I love in the end how he proves them to have no principles. No better than the people they look down on.
Exactly
Never stood a chance. Tough scene to watch.
Thank you for the video. Have a great day
Masaki Kobayashi needs same amount of recognition Kurosawa does!
this just blew my mind, seriously badass slick movie making, we need more like this today
The scene in the room with the 2 guys and the movements through the window is like a a dream or looking at post modern artwork! So weird yet fascinating!
Great choreo! So dramatic is like watching Japanese Opera.
The Lord of the house is a coward!
He's not the lord. He's the chief councilor of the Ii clan, in charge of running things while the lord of the Ii clan (major vassal of the tokugawa shogunate) is out of town for business. At the end of the film, when the lord returns, the councilor doesn't tell him about this disturbing "incident" & instead, tells him everything was fine while he was away .
when i watch this at the age of 6 it change my life through art
He won at the end. He had the satisfaction of killing several several and wounding many of that house's samurai and committing harakiri with the gunshots as the second's killing stroke.
taclas1 isnt ritual suicide seppuku?
@@tatan5053 Different terms for the same concept.
@@tatan5053 Seppuku is very ritualized. You need to pick a second to decapitate you, get fine clothes, have a requested last meal, compose a death poem, and so on. Harakiri is belly cutting the same, but it's a more impromptu suicide that doesn't demand 12 hours of preparation.
Mortablunt never knew that, dope.
@@Mortablunt yeah, this is not for honour, this is straight suicide because hes insane
A Great scene is when the senior samurai is alone the room and can hear the fighting. What was to be a quick death has turned into a fight with a demon. He doesn't show it openly, but he is afraid of what's unleashed outside.
I love how the move with only their soles of the feet and not the entire limb. I guess it is to conceal their movement and intentions to some extent.
In the end, he they still denied them their kill by performing the Harakiri on himself. Absolute badass.
Powerful. Timeless. Masterful on all levels.
Mount and blade when your the only one left alive
Until the 20 sharpshooter thats still alive all turn on you
Lol sometimes the swarm strike their own teammate too
4:46 straight up a dark souls boss fight intro
Could watch this movie a million times & never get bored!!
Mr. Nakadai is a legendary actor, his movies are so inspiring, we wish him health from Türkiye.
Türk olarak bir ben buralardayım sanıyordum. Samuray sineması, Kurosawa dokunuşları ve oyuncular inanılmaz bir kalite.
@@yzb.kurt1283 Hoşgeldin bro :)
This was one of my first Japanese classics I watched after Seven Samurai got me interested in Japanese cinema. It blew my mind, and it has left an impression.
So powerful it brings tears to my eyes.
Wow the cinematography is so advanced
Movie was ahead of it's time.
Nice use of blood...not overly splattered about but used in key moments to great effect...
After this one watch Sword of Doom. Another great one.
James Mason Sword of Doom, Harakiri, and Ran convinced me that Tatsuya Nakadai is the greatest, most versatile Japanese actor in the history of film.
YES!!!
I saw this movie on PBS many years ago, so moving.
What the.....I actually loved watching these movies in my youth. That was about 50 or 60 so years ago. Today when I see something like this, if not only that I had idolized Samurai then, I cannot help but ask, was it necessary to take out one man through this? Against a "multitude"?
I haven't seen anything so amazing! Can I say what a graceful death scene he gave? I don't know the plot of the story but I'm sure he was a great hero
The fight has been brilliantly choreographed - considering all realistic possibilities. Just brilliant!
This was my first akria film after it I couldn't stop watching his films
This is Masaki Kobayashi film though.
That opening shot, and lighting on his face/eyes 👏🇯🇵
This is real sword fighting not what i seen in zatochi series who is like joke
上意討ちと並ぶ小林正樹監督の時代劇映画の傑作ですね！
One of the best movies ever made and needs to have reshowing in western cinemas. Tickets would sell out in metro areas.
They accomplished something so really stunning it begs belief that we’re watching a violent scene
I hate making list, but this has to be on my top 5 (maybe even top 3) movies of all time. Sure, it ends with a romanticized sword fight, but the points and messaging is so thought provoking. I love it!
I liked the talk the chancellor had with his right hand man. He basically confirmed what the samurai said by ordering a cover-up. When his right hand man hesitated the chancellor told him"You know the ways of the world as well!". In other words, this would ruin the clans reputation. In the end honor was mostly a farce.
a man's desperate fight to survive against all odds and time.
Loved how in the end he still got to perform Harakiri
nope and exactly this is the point that they didn't let him do it
The director of John Wick movies must have watched a lot of these Japanese classics. At least it has that feel to me.
Acting, story, director, the best.
Didn't know about this version. But I watched the modern version. Great film
They all are afraid of him because he didn’t only beat all the samurai main players in that house, he just took their top knots. Showing his true skill, and that none of those samurai are willing to show their faces and are feigning sickness and injury to not shame themselves. He didn’t just kill them, he left them alive to live with the aftermath that’s gonna come, the whole country will hear how the most noble and skilled warriors were bested by one man. How they made a man who was just trying to earn some money for his sick and dying family, and they made him commit seppuku with a bamboo sword and didn’t even give him the chance to explain his situation. You really feel for his son in law and grand son and daughter. This movie was great.
That was one of the most amazingly shot film scenes I have ever seen!
I agree with so many of these comments about the symbolism, cinematography, and him looking possessed. What's cool is at 2:55 when he looks sideways, because of the lowers quality/BW film, it always seems like his eyes glaze over and go white.
Training, talent and skill come to bunt any attack until overwhelmed by sheer numbers and guns.
It takes you back to old days...
Them deciding to kill him with gunfire shows that they knew it was gonna be a long time until he died if they used swords.
The forever classic " let's all attack 1 at a time" technique.... A cinematic classic still used today!
If they all charge at him. Obviously some will die in the process, and obviously nobody wants to die in the process so they dont risk it.
Kudos to the intensity or passion Japanese have towards everything in life. Their cultural ethos are highest in the world. Be it war, obedience, revenge, work, love or family they give their best without holding anything back. Success of a people or country depends on this emotion. Thanks. Awesome.
Being of that nation, of that history, must be very powerful to gear up, dress up as their ancestors did, to make a film. Amazing!
They don't make em like that anymore.
what a beautiful movie
You know that hurts bad! Getting sliced by a Razorsharp Samurai Sword. Very unpleasant. At the end the Samurai Armor comforts him. Great scenes!
For a black and white movie, the camerawork was really ahead of it's time ngl
A masterpiece of Japanese cinema!
Not gonna lie, the only reason im watching these movies now is because of GoT... But holy hell are they good, I've basically been hypnotised by them for a week lol.
Tatsuya Nakadai had the lead role. He went on to roles in dozens of movies and TV episodes.
This is why guards normally use spears, pikes, halberds, polearms. Exactly to avoid such mess ))
the most important part of the film they left out: they wash away all trace of the incident and cover it up with a lie. all that remains is the house journal - lies.