- Year
- 1967
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Director
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (31/100)
- Also known as
- Samurai Rebellion
Samurai Rebellion
Kobayashi and Mifune against feudal authority again. It builds slowly and then it does not stop.
Masaki Kobayashi and Toshiro Mifune make a companion piece to Harakiri, another study of an honourable man crushed by a dishonourable system. A retired swordsman's son is ordered to give up his beloved wife to satisfy a lord's whim, and the family's refusal sets off a confrontation with the whole feudal order.
It is slow, deliberate and controlled, and when the violence finally comes it is devastating precisely because the film has made you feel everything leading to it. Mifune, playing against his usual explosiveness, is superb.
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