Harakiri

A daimyo's daughter, a European officer who leaves and returns with a wife, a child, a blade: Madame Butterfly without the name, and Lil Dagover in the part. Studio Japan with paper walls and a real garden. It was Fritz Lang's fourth film, in 1919, and already it is a woman, a decision and a ceremony, with the last scene as the ceremony. Decla, eighty-seven minutes.