For your response papers, please write freely about the opening sequence of Kobayashi Masaki’s 1962 film “Harakiri/Seppuku” (from time stamp 00:28 to time stamp 04:23) in terms of “form” (style, techniques, sound, composition, cinematography) and “content” (theme, symbolism, meaning/significance). How, in other words, does Kobayashi prepare his viewers in this masterful opening sequence for the rest of the film to come?
