398768
398768

White Clothing: Harakiri

1990-01-01
4.7
ja 45m
Horror
A black and white preface shows a woman in a traditional kimono climbing the stairs as WWII era Mitsubishi Zeros fly through the sky and footage of the Japanese military of the era is superimposed over the footage. She stops at the top of the stairs to say her prayers, rings a bell, and heads inside where the footage is shot in color. She unravels her kimono and rubs her face with the cloth before wrapping her blade and lovingly touching it. She pulls it across her stomach and slits herself open, falling to the mat. She crawls across the mat, dying, slipping in her own slick blood until she can't move anymore.

Camera Operator

Yuuri Sunohara

Writer

Yuuri Sunohara

Music

Masami Akita

Cinematography

Akio Fuji

Assistant Camera

山本森子

Assistant Director

海老名淳

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Status

Released

Countries

  • Japan

Companies

  • Right Brain