The Beauty Of Hara-kiri (Seppuku)

[@TheBeautyOf]

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[@fabriciodias7608]

Seven samurai

[@known_film4081]

I was wondering if you could make a videos of the beauty of usa cinema, mexican cinema, .... basically of different countries 🤔 this is just a suggestion... its up to you of course.

[@TheBeautyOf]

@@known_film4081 yes that's planned, but it takes a lot of time!

[@innolobaton]

A gem of japanese cinema. One of the greatest samurai film ever made. A film that transcends language and culture fueled by emotionally powerful performances, great cinematography and gripping story. This is pure cinema at its best.

[@aboutalocalstory3457]

amazing!

[@abstractsansar6521]

anti-samurai**

[@starseeker1620]

@@abstractsansar6521 Not really, the film focuses a lot more on the human relationship and on the "Bushido" itself, not speaking against it but rather against those who bend the meaning of it and their ethical code in order to achieve self-righteousness. You can see how Kobayashi-sensei portrays what a real samurai and what a real man should be with both Chijiiwa Motome - the willingness to give everything up and fall to the lowest pits of hell in order to try to save the one you love and your family, and Tsugumo Hanshiro - what a man with discipline, determination, grief and sheer ******* will is able to do in order to clear the name of his family. Truly what a real samurai is and how even they are human at heart and how they can also grieve when the world around them is more than cruel towards the ones they love. A timeless masterpiece that its full beauty I simply cannot put into words and will always be in my heart.

[@dpage446]

Japanese movies tend to have very "stable" cameras, with near perfect framing, and the camera is also pretty much stationary. This is my favourite type of cinematography

[@KBrianO]

Watch Kurosawa's and Kobayashi's

[@sudeendawadi8787]

You must hate The Office

[@dpage446]

@@sudeendawadi8787 just because I prefer stable cinematography doesn't mean that I automatically hate the "handheld" cinematography.

[@dc33c]

@@dpage446 the stable and smooth camera movement paired with black & white makes the movie look really modern and not outdated

[@dane9027]

Kobayashi's cinematography is actually fairly unique even for Japanese cinema, it's more intimate and honestly so ahead of the curve. Like Kubrick he was apparently a perfectionist, so it makes sense.

[@innolobaton]

Harakiri won the Special jury prize at cannes in 1963. Kobayashi's mentor, Kinoshita, pronounced the film a masterpiece, among the five greatest japanese films of all time.

[@sirgriffith7122]

What were the other 4?

[@pavlosgermanidis2754]

@@sirgriffith7122 for me it would be 1. Harakiri 2. Funeral Parade of Roses 3. Battle Royale 4. Yojimbo 5. Hana-Bi

[@my_earbuds8897]

I love Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Sword Of Doom, hell basically all of samurai cinema. But something about Harakiri just stands out to me, and that is Tatsuya Nakadai performance. He is just mesmerizing at best in this movie. The Beauty Of Ran 1985

[@kirya7177]

I was expecting to miss the point of the movie, but how magnificently this movie transcends cultural barriers with common human themes and outstanding acting made it thrilling and enjoyable from the start to the very end. I just finished watching it and highly recommend other people to give it a try if you haven't already.

[@glishev]

This film is a treasure. Story, acting, directing, shooting and the haunting, nervous, mock-kabuki soundtrack... all of this creates a masterpiece.

[@melissaking6019]

Kobayashi and Miyajima clearly had a great appreciation for Tatsuya Nakadai's craftsmanship as an actor. The stillness of Nakadai's body as he tells his character's story contrasts with the explosive passion and grace of his swordplay. They also knew that Nakadai had deeply expressive, glowing eyes that could capture a full range of emotions. The film is great just by watching Nakadai's performance using only his eyes. Harakiri is a magnificent, gripping film and Nakadai's personal favorite of his distinguished, prolific career.

[@countbustula5545]

This is a damn good edit, I like how the cuts are on beat with the strumming when it gets loud/fast. Harakiri is easily one of my favorite movies, right up there with Throne of Blood.

[@MyMelody5]

Wow. What a gorgeous cinematography. You can tell the director thinks of cinema as art rather than just a way to make money.

[@cowsaysboo]

One of the best movies ever, period. I wish more people watch this movie. It's so incredible. The storytelling is absolutely amazing and don't even get me started on the camerawork. Kurosawa is my favorite director of all time but Hara-kiri is the best samurai movie EVER

[@charliewillis7596]

Watched a few weeks back honestly one of the best things I’ve ever seen

[@OoooshetriesSs]

Can I asked where u found it to watch? I’m trying to find a version I can view (hopefully w/subtitles cause.. I’m a stupid American) 💀

[@User-xw6kd]

Absolutely incredible film. Easily one of the best ever. My jaw was on the floor by the end.

[@rogerkincaid931]

Nakadai was amazing here.

[@aaronmercado8630]

It’s amazing to see how refined the technology to film black and white actually was in the 60s, look at how hi-def the picture is. You watch a movie from around the same time filmed in color and it’s remastered today, the picture quality still look a bit distorted. Amazing to see what film makers did in the past!

[@P.Whitestrake]

Never seen this film before. Looks intense & amazing.

[@ragejoona431]

Oh, it's a masterpiece. Right up there with the best Kurosawa films.

[@ragejoona431]

@@coolnamebro I think I'd put Seven Samurai, Rashomon and High And Low above this, but it's really one of those things where it feels weird having to choose between them.

[@TwistVisuals]

It's a must watch. Although pretty sad. The story does have a lot of weight and meaning.

[@Werkvuur]

This is my favourite classic Samurai film. The duel scene is just breathtaking.

[@AronLichteFilm]

Wonderful! Kobayashis movies with Miyajima as cinematographer are amoung the most beautiful movies ever made. A video on Kwaidan would be awesome!

[@bharasiva96]

That final sword battle with the wind blowing. Goosebumps even today.

[@WilliamCrombie]

I’m pretty comfortable calling this the best movie ever made.

[@AA-lh8gr]

I don’t know what’s more beautiful the movie or the edit ❤️❤️❤️

[@GenSecWPNM]

0:33 is so beautiful.

[@knot4424]

looks like modern cinematography

[@emilianobolado7763]

Shout out to the guy at Barnes & Noble who recommended this as I was picking up some Kurosawa’s for the Criterion sale. This film blew me away. Can’t wait to check out more from Kobayashi

[@dane9027]

Hope you found some good ones, Kobayashi was a master.

[@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699]

I love Seven Samurai but this… This to me is the greatest samurai film that has ever been put to screen

[@samhamer1425]

One of the best movies I've ever seen

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

My favorite Samurai movie and one of my favorite films of all time

[@adamsuleman6389]

Yesss!!!! Last night I was watching this film. I still consider harakiri as one of my favourite movies of all time. I believe it’s as good as seven samurai.

[@muhammadzarif7903]

I JUST watched this the other day, perfect timing!

[@zeusfloreus]

Masterful cinematography

[@JRennick27]

You can see a lot of the influence on Ghost of Tsushima in this film.

[@CrismasterXD]

Jajajaja Quien no ha visto a Dios a cualquier Santo le reza.

[@changutherabbit7419]

It's the opposite

[@davidhinojosa1328]

This came out before ghost bro

[@JRennick27]

David Hinojosa that’s what I said, “influence on GOT”

[@dpage446]

@@davidhinojosa1328 Read the comment again, it says that this film has had influence on Ghost of Tsushima

[@elpatron6537]

True art of a movie

[@samidejong106]

This film is such a masterpiece!

[@JukeboxJellyJ]

I'm a criterion guy, I've heard of this one never seen anything on it or knew what it was about but the first minute of this is absolutely breathtaking, a must own for the next B&N sale!

[@P.M-]

Greatest film of all time

[@sayansingha6370]

Fun fact- I was watching Seven Samurai when this dropped!!

[@deadbars8755]

please do Ran

[@MiguelSanchez-jj6ks]

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[@ryanwhittaker2167]

Masterpiece

[@danielacosta7690]

I am an Illustrator and for me this Channel is the most beautiful find of the year !!

[@TheBeautyOf]

Thank you Daniel 🙏

[@voltgaming2213]

Every framing is almost perfect

[@dennuise]

Absolutely in love with the opening theme

[@lukadonadze6440]

”I taught you to fight with honor”

[@darthslinger1129]

"honor died on the beach" "The Khan must suffer!"

[@anolulu]

"You are ruled by your emotions..."

[@Someusernameidk454]

"I sacrificed everything I knew for my people! I gave them hope you gave them nothing!"

[@davidaddison5936]

One of the best films I've ever seen.

[@vaneyck8186]

Great squencing,haunting score,great

[@bgph16]

great edit! cheers from japan! ofcourse kurosawa is perfect, but i think this movie is truly best... nakadai's most memorable work.

[@escapism7996]

Was going through all your videos And found one of my Favorites ❤️

[@Dreadsothoth]

Superb! But too easy with this masterpiece. A little joke i agree, i love your work. I would love to see the Beauty of The Sword of Doom.

[@KeyserSoze1234]

If I'm not mistaken (correct me if I'm wrong) Harakiri, as well as several Kurosawa films, were a great reference for the creation of Star Wars and Leone's works. It is one of his masterpieces, along with the Human Condition Trilogy, Samurai Rebellion and Kwaidan.

[@ninjaviking1999]

Masterpiece movie, Japanese directors don't get the recognition that they deserve in the modern-day movie scene.

[@patrickcaillonneau6436]

Un des plus grands Chambara de l'histoire du cinéma. Top, Magnifique !!! 👍📽📀

[@allanbani]

Just saw it recently. Enjoyed every shot of this film.

[@decisivebeing9727]

One of the most awesome movies I've watched

[@dabangify]

What an art , what an intense , remarkable..

[@Omar-qi5hm]

The key piece of anti-feudalism Japans, and from that Marxist vision of Kobayashi, the film delights like no other in the history of cinema, The best film ever in Asia, no doubt

[@rubeng9092]

I believe the socio-political critique of the era is only one dimension of the movie. I believe this is just as much a spiritual film as a sociological one. It is about the glory of fighting for the good even if it means death, of risking once life out of a sacral compulsion to embody justice. Of showing the hypocrisy and thus socially killing oneself(of commiting harakiri without commiting harakiri, paradoxically).

[@nikson666]

Tatsuya Nakadai said in an interview that he acted in around 160 movies, but Harakiri as a whole was the best one.

[@hitachicordoba]

If you like the collaboration of Tatsuya Nakadai and Masaki Kobayashi, you must see their anti-war masterpiece, the ten-hour trilogy The Human Condition. It will change you.

[@y2kmedia118]

I'm watching this instead of the trailer

[@gutterbaby8382]

Please, if you read this, consider making a video about Yoshio Miyajima as a cinematographer in general. His incredible work with director Masaki Kobayashi does not get recognised enough.

[@rahultej2248]

Greatest movie ever made(Oh k, as our great friend insisted, what I mean by saying “greatest” is nothing but I love it very much. I hope at least others are sensible enough to know what I mean and that I am not taking a position of Lord who decides what is the greatest). Waiting for Human Condition Trilogy

[@rahultej2248]

Aritosthenes Lol dude! I know “Greatest-something-ever” makes no plausible sense. So that’s why you need to know that whenever someone says a thing like that, they don’t literally mean it. I actually think judging Art itself is very silly. This is just for fun. Ok? Don’t you worry, boy

[@rahultej2248]

Aritosthenes Amen

[@rahultej2248]

Aritosthenes and boy I LOVE how you mentioned You Were Never Really Here, which is a more important film for me personally than Hara Kiri. So now you know how serious I was while writing the original comment 😂

[@guywithasukapfp7835]

the cinematography of this film is so ahead of its time.

[@ELHIPPO]

Ufff men you are a real genius

[@pro101full]

Awesome❣️🐶✌️

[@Jhayzer021]

The last time I saw a masterpiece like this is the Rurouni Kenshin films, every shot is a work of art.

[@ramasullivan924]

Awesomee!

[@MrTables]

Hara-Kiri is such a special samurai film in that it utterly destroys their moral code, really no other film I’ve seen that’s quite like it

[@bmarshy]

It seems most modern films don’t focus on cinematography anymore, and when there’s a beautifully stunning film it’s made a big deal out of. And that’s okay, good films deserve all the praise they can get. But a lot of films seem to overlook the importance of good cinematography. There are of course many great exceptions to this, though.

[@purplevoid5775]

Great video you should do the beauty of whiplash

[@jacksonbennett1664]

Would love to see a beauty of Ran vid

[@ruqayyahdawudrafeeq]

It's beautiful, please do the Beauty of JUSTIFIED.

[@_m.d.y_]

You gotta do Kobayashi’s Human Condition Trilogy!!

[@mickeyjunior7177]

YYEESS...please you've got to do shadow by zhang yimou...IT'S INCREDIBLE!

[@Jm-ki4su]

truly an amazing film! maybe at some point, can you do a video on the Beauty of Hausu (1977)?

[@MatadorShifter]

I genuinely believe that without this movie, Sergio Leone would've never grown out of mediocre peplum into the monster ofna director we remember him as. Harakiri inspired Leone? I think Harakiri made Leone!

[@bartoszwojtowicz8770]

Now we need one on Samurai Rebellion too

[@gino2247]

Nice video ! Can you make The Beauty of This Is Us, wonderfull series

[@BirdofKino]

The beauty of Seppuku is that it's the sweet release from this horrible world

[@SplitGoose]

I think the human consciousness is evolving. There's a reason we can't find intelligent life in the universe anywhere else but here. They knew (and we're starting to learn) that existence is a horrific thing to bear. In the next few hundred years we'll join them and find peace in the void. Finally, that will be our earnt reward. Ignorance is bliss.

[@JacobODell_]

Nice of you two to bring some life to the party

[@BirdofKino]

@@JacobODell_ Someone had to

[@aniki6575]

You ok there bro?

[@BirdofKino]

@@aniki6575 Truth be told, I feel fine. But only fine

[@LaurianeG.]

I'd like to shower this video with likes.

[@sergentpeppermint2810]

The beauty of the spacewalker

[@brucesnow7125]

My favorite Samurai movie to be honest. By the way, if you want another great Samurai movie by Kobayashi, watch Samurai Rebellion with Toshiro Mifune. Very underrated flick.

[@seisui22]

Bro this movie fucking masterpiece

[@Akira-yk9ls]

2:10 this shot. Nut...

[@aniki6575]

Dude, you NEED to make videos on Kurosawa movies.

[@jonathansuzuki4784]

RAN has a beautiful photograph.

[@jamesmmcgill]

Next: The Beauty of Mad Men

[@triceratops7084]

Amazing! Watch Kwaidan if you haven't seen it yet, Kobayashi is a GOD

[@williamwylde7082]

Love these! Could you do one for Hateful 8?

[@XxSatanicSlayerxX]

Hope you will do Sword of Doom one day. Harakiri is still the #1 Samurai film.

[@gonzalocapetillo1210]

Do the rum dairy if possible, great film 👌🏼

[@darioleon8791]

Please make: The beauty of The Pianist

[@ItalianManCombatArms]

Nice video, nice channel! Can I suggest you something that I love with amazing colors and stunning photography? "Utopia" (UK by Channel 4)!

[@sajjaad1523]

J'ai regarde ce film pour la premiere fois pendant le confinement. C'etait le premier film Samourai qui n'etait pas de Kurosawa que je regardais. J'ai adore et j'ai l'intention de regarder la Condition Humaine et Kwaidan du meme realisateur, mais il faut maintenat que je trouve du temps.

[@damienf5006]

Pareil

[@rtucci3643]

wooooow

[@ibngiuseppe7427]

I love sow much Kurosawa movie 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@pedroreyesrevelles4420]

【Dr. T A S S O N I】 this is not a kurosawa Movie lol

[@ibngiuseppe7427]

@@pedroreyesrevelles4420 wait what ???!!!

[@esotilin616]

I really appreciate what you do, in way this can be better than trailer for a person who hasn't watched a movie. Keep on doing this, is beautiful!! Also, a recommendation, you could do a The Beauty of Evangelion

[@keithneri688]

Do Seven Samurai pls

[@priyar7536]

please do the beauty of gone girl! thank you

[@unkle_Enkil]

I've often wondered if it's possible to commit seppuku without uttering a sound ?. Either way may have to re -watch this classic. Watched the remake recently..meh..

[@ekinadacalk3077]

I think you should make The Last Of The Mohikans.

[@kalle3879]

Man, why can't you stream these Japanese classics anywhere in Germany?? You can't even buy a DVD of this with German subtitles on Amazon... Now I have to buy the UK Import but the upside is that soon I'll have a great collection of these Samurai movies. I've already bought a few of Kurosawa's movies. Great video!

[@kashoot4782]

The beauty of parasite please?

[@zxprophet30]

does anyone know what that instrument is called?

[@Dreadsothoth]

Shamisen

[@henryconnor7839]

I want the beauty of Se7en