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Hikari Mitsushima

Hikari Mitsushima

“I studied adults’ faces...I was good at making superficial facial expressions. Being an actor, I started to confront the characters I played. I started to have real conversations with directors and other actors. And through such changes, the habit of studying people’s faces began to wear off.”

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    Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai

    HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI

    TAKASHI MIIKE Japan, 2011

    Following the explosive 13 Assassins, the iconoclastic Takashi Miike revisited the samurai genre with this underrated remake of the 1962 classic Harakiri. Scored by the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, Death of a Samurai is an elegant reckoning with notions of sacrifice and duty in the 17th century.

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