Harakiri

Like westerns, we needn’t watch genre-reared samurai characters to understand and enjoy what makes them tick. They can enlarge to include tales of moral quandaries and human pitfalls. One of the best of these, “Harakiri,” concerns a down-and-out older itinerant samurai who presents an inescapable moral quandary to the headman of a formidable clan. He […]