Harakiri
- IMDb link: 0010208
- IMDb rating: 5.6 (981 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Fritz Lang
- Cast: Paul Biensfeldt, Lil Dagover, Georg John, Meinhart Maur and others
- Release date: 6 Dec 1920
- Release year: 1919
- Runtime: 80 minutes
- Country: Germany
- Keywords: japan, madame butterfly, based on play
Plot
Storyline
A Buddhist priest pressures a feudal lord to send his daughter to serve at a sacred garden. When the lord suggests she should choose her own path-as Europeans might-he's condemned and forced to take his own life.
The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks if he were in Europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denounced and has to commit harakiri. She meets Olaf, a European officer, falls in love and marries him, but after a few months he has to return to Europe. She gives birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in Europe. When he comes back to Japan 4 years later, he is accompanied by his European wife...
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