Bunya Ozawa

Harakiri (1962)

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaki Kobayashi
CAST:  Tatsuya Nakadai  •  Rentaro Mikuni  •  Shima Iwashita  •  Akira Ishihama

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaki Kobayashi
CAST:  Tatsuya Nakadai  •  Rentaro Mikuni  •  Shima Iwashita  •  Akira Ishihama

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nagisa Ōshima
CAST:  Keiko Sakurai  •  Kei Satō  •  Tetsuo Ashida  •  Bunya Ozawa

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nagisa Ōshima
CAST:  Keiko Sakurai  •  Kei Satō  •  Tetsuo Ashida  •  Bunya Ozawa