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  • He put the tip of his finger on a spot close under his breastbone, the very spot of the human body where a Japanese gentleman begins the operations of the Harakiri, which is a form of suicide following upon dishonour, upon an intolerable outrage to the delicacy of one's feelings.

    A Set of Six Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Mr. Nakadai had not seen "Harakiri" in 20 years when he watched it at the retrospective's opening night: "In Japan, everyone speaks of Mifune and Kurosawa and also of Kobayashi and Nakadai," he said.

    He's a Still-Working Actor 2008

  • The actor and director made 11 films together, until Kobayashi's retirement in 1985, but their partnership's apex was "Harakiri" (1962), in which Mr. Nakadai played a disgruntled ex-samurai come to avenge his son-in-law's death.

    He's a Still-Working Actor 2008

  • Goro tells Linkerton, that it is the weapon, with which her father performed "Harakiri" (killed himself).

    The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

  • A stuffed tiger “Harakiri Tora” comes to life and tells him to fight as a female psychic fighter “Kämpfer”.

    Anime Preview: Fall 2009 « Undercover 2009

  • President Obama, by his threat to cut off Social Security payments, has given us the other side of the "too big to fail" coin: too vulnerable not to be used as pawns " Debt-Limit Harakiri ," Review & Outlook, July 13.

    Cuts: The President Will Show His Real Priorities 2011

  • There he found on one shelf, again alphabetically arranged, the crème de la crème of samurai DVDs, mostly Kurosawa but also several other top-line films he had seen, including Samurai Rebellion, Harakiri, Band of Assassins, and When the Last Sword Is Drawn.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He had a hundred of them, not just the ones the smart boys said were great like The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo and Throne of Blood and Ran, but movies nobody ever heard of in the West, like Sword Devil and The Sword That Saved Edo and Hanzo the Razor and The 47 Ronin and Samurai Assassin and Harakiri and Goyokin and Tale of a Female Yakuza and Lady Snowblood and Ganjiro Island.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • There he found on one shelf, again alphabetically arranged, the crème de la crème of samurai DVDs, mostly Kurosawa but also several other top-line films he had seen, including Samurai Rebellion, Harakiri, Band of Assassins, and When the Last Sword Is Drawn.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • For the best movie about hypocrisy you're likely to see, try Harakiri.

    Why Traditionalists Should Prefer Libertines to Hypocrites, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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