Hara-kiri: Death Of A Samurai
strong bloody violence, suicide
Director(s)Takashi Miike
Production year2011
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes127m
CastKôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka, Hikari Mitsushima, Eita Nagayama, Ebizô Ichikawa, Hirofumi Arai, Kazuki Namioka, Takashi Sasano, Ayumu Saitô, Takashi Miike, Kikumi Yamagishi, Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Shingo Sekine, Tôichirô Shiraishi, Jeremy Thomas, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nobuyasu Kita, Kenji Yamashita, Yuriko Kitada, Yûji Hayashida
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 wi ...
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.
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.
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.
Classified Date:
27/01/2014
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd
Classified date14/28/2025
LanguageJapanese
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 year2011
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes127m
CastKôji Yakusho, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka, Hikari Mitsushima, Eita Nagayama, Ebizô Ichikawa, Hirofumi Arai, Kazuki Namioka, Takashi Sasano, Ayumu Saitô, Takashi Miike, Kikumi Yamagishi, Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Shingo Sekine, Tôichirô Shiraishi, Jeremy Thomas, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nobuyasu Kita, Kenji Yamashita, Yuriko Kitada, Yûji Hayashida
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.
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.
Classified Date:
27/01/2014
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd
Classified date14/28/2025
LanguageJapanese
