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.
John Luther Long, Max Jungk, David Belasco
Germany
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Eternal Conflict in Harakiri When Fritz Lang’s expressionist shadows still clung to German studios, director Max Jungk crafted this startlingly nuanced tragedy—a collision of feudal obligation and nascent individualism that vibrates with contemporary urgency. Harakiri unfolds not as ...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
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" The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Eternal Conflict in Harakiri When Fritz Lang’s expressionist shadows still clung to German studios, director Max Jungk crafted this startlingly nuanced tragedy—a collision of feudal obligation and nascent individualism that vibrates with contemporary urgency. Harakiri unfolds not as exotic spectacle but as a scalpel-cut dissection of power structures, where Lil Dagover’s glacial high priest deploys religious doctrine like garrote wire against Rudolf Lettinger’..."
