• Director(s)

    Takashi Miike

  • Production Year

    2011

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    127m

  • Cast

    Kôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka

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Hara-kiri: Death Of A Samurai

strong bloody violence, suicide

In HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI, a lone samurai in seventeenth-century Japan arrives at a castle with a request that will challenge the court.…

In HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI, a lone samurai in seventeenth-century Japan arrives at a castle with a request that will challenge the court.

violence
A fight scene involves bladed weapons but with no visible bloody detail.
suicide and self-harm
People harm themselves with swords, including in a lengthy scene, with bloody detail included. There are references to suicide in a historical context.
injury detail
There is sight of bloody injury detail as people harm themselves. A man is seen lying in a pool of blood.
disturbing images
A young woman coughs up blood.
theme
There is a theme of suicide. There is also a bereavement theme, involving a family experiencing the loss of a child.

  • Director(s)

    Takashi Miike

  • Production Year

    2011

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    127m

  • Cast

    Kôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka

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Contains strong bloody violence
Classified Date:
24/04/2012
Version:
3D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Revolver Entertainment
violence
There is a prolonged scene of ritual suicide that features a sustained focus on the man's pain as he attempts to commit suicide with a wooden sword. The sword is seen being stabbed into the man's abdomen in close up, resulting in blood spilling over the sword and the man's hands.
additional issues
This film also contains a number of references to ritual suicide within a historical context. However, suicide is not presented as pain free or desirable. There are occasional scenes of mourning, sight of a dead cat without any evidence of injury or suffering and sight of a man smoking a pipe.
strong bloody violence, suicide
Classified Date:
14/02/2025
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Icon Film Distribution
violence
A fight scene involves bladed weapons but with no visible bloody detail.
suicide and self-harm
People harm themselves with swords, including in a lengthy scene, with bloody detail included. There are references to suicide in a historical context.
injury detail
There is sight of bloody injury detail as people harm themselves. A man is seen lying in a pool of blood.
disturbing images
A young woman coughs up blood.
theme
There is a theme of suicide. There is also a bereavement theme, involving a family experiencing the loss of a child.
Contains strong bloody violence
Classified Date:
28/03/2014
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd
Contains strong bloody violence
Classified Date:
12/04/2012
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Revolver Entertainment
violence
There is a prolonged scene of ritual suicide that features a sustained focus on the man's pain as he attempts to commit suicide with a wooden sword. The sword is seen being stabbed into the man's abdomen in close up, resulting in blood spilling over the sword and the man's hands.
additional issues
This film also contains a number of references to ritual suicide within a historical context. However, suicide is not presented as pain free or desirable. There are occasional scenes of mourning, sight of a dead cat without any evidence of injury or suffering and sight of a man smoking a pipe.
Classified Date:
27/01/2014
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd

  • Classified date

    14/02/2025

  • Language

    Japanese