All I can say is wow. I feel like I've just had a religious experience, if that's a measurable scale. Harakiri has been sitting in my collection for a very long time. I picked it up back in 2013 when my Criterion Bluray collection was barely 10 titles deep. Like so many things in life, I kept telling myself I'd watch it "one of these days." Well, 13 years later and “runny nose cold day”, that day finally came to peel off the cellophane and pop it in the player. I went in with an open mind. Honestly, I figured that if I wasn't hooked within the first 10 minutes, I'd move on to and watch something else. Five minutes in, I was intrigued. Twenty minutes in, my curiosity was completely locked in. I kept waiting for some explosive act of revenge or fury to be unleashed, that scene never came. I couldn't have been more wrong. What followed was far more intelligent, devastating, and emotionally powerful than I expected.…