Harakiri (1919)
The daughter of a daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
- Date of release
- 1919-12-18
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (27)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Fritz Lang
Casting
- Paul Biensfeldt — Daimyo Tokuyawa
- Lil Dagover — O-Take-San
- George John — Monk
- Meinhart Maur — Price Matahari
- Rudolf Lettinger — Karan
- Erner Huebsch — Kin-Be-Araki
- Kaete Juster — Hanake
- Niels Prien — Olaf Jens Anderson
- Herta Héden — Eva
- Loni Nest — Child
Interesting facts
Harakiri, or Madame Butterfly, is a German 1919 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. It was one of the first Japanese-themed films depicting Japanese culture. The film was originally released in the United States and other countries as Madame Butterfly because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired Giacomo Puccini's eponymous 1904 opera. The film starred Lil Dagover as O-Take-san.
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