Harakiri [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"This Japanese drama is set in the 17th century after the country centralized its political power. One effect of the death of feudalism was that the samurai warriors suddenly had no purpose. Many of the great fighters were suddenly reduced to wandering to estates and, in hopes of being giving jobs, piteously begging the owners to allow them to commit harikiri (the samurai suicide ritual) on their land. One such old fighter comes to an estate and is informed that a younger samurai came befor...