Hara-Kiri
Aging samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the home of Kageyu Saito (Rentarô Mikuni) and asks to commit a ritual suicide on the property, which Saito thinks is a ploy to gain pity and a job.
Saito tells Tsugumo of another samurai, Motome Chijiiwa (Yoshio Inaba), who threatened suicide as a stratagem, only to be forced to follow through on the task. When Tsugumo reveals that Chijiiwa was his son-in-law, the disclosure sets off a fierce conflict.
| Director: | Masaki Kobayashi |
| Cast: | Yoshio Inaba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Masao Mishima |
| Writer(s): | Shinobu Hashimoto |
