White Clothing: Harakiri (1990) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1990 · 45 mins · Japanese

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Directed by

Yuuri Sunohara

Starring

Hiromi Saotome

A black‑and‑white prelude shows a woman in a kimono climbing stairs while Mitsubishi Zeros fly overhead and Japanese military footage overlays. She stops at the landing to pray, rings a bell and enters, where scene shifts to colour. She unwraps her kimono, wipes her face with a cloth, wraps a blade, caresses it, then cuts her abdomen. She collapses on mat, crawls in blood, slipping until she can no longer move.