This movie has a great first 30 minutes. Stoicism and honor combined with gut-churning and cruel execution. Then great dialog as Hanshiro sits on the chopping block and plays with the noble's minds and unfolds his plot. Great timing, great camera-work, great zen.
Then it turns out that Hanshiro's revenge plan involves a lot of extra long flashbacks and redundant dialog about boring stuff. This is all capped off with some "fighting" Ten-year-olds finding an old bag of golf clubs in the basement have acted out better sword fights than the ones this film offers.
I recommend the beginning of Seppuku to anybody, but turn it off when it slides into a endless ho-hum debate about "who's honor is the deepest"
Then it turns out that Hanshiro's revenge plan involves a lot of extra long flashbacks and redundant dialog about boring stuff. This is all capped off with some "fighting" Ten-year-olds finding an old bag of golf clubs in the basement have acted out better sword fights than the ones this film offers.
I recommend the beginning of Seppuku to anybody, but turn it off when it slides into a endless ho-hum debate about "who's honor is the deepest"