Zenin Seppuku

7.0

Completing Toshiaki Toyoda's politically urgent Resurrection Trilogy following Wolf's Calling (2019) and The Day of Destruction (2020), this electrifying short follows a man tasked with assisting in the ritual suicide…

Tennoji no Seppuku

Harakiri

8.3

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn. (Source:…

My Sweet Harakiri

Sozaburo excels at swordsmanship, but doesn't know the first thing about books. Entangled in a government plot, he is ordered to commit "seppuku" -- to slice his belly in ritual suicide. Without any poetry experience…

Shitsurakuen: jôbafuku onna harakiri

4.0

One of six seppuku videos produced by Right Brain Video in the early 1990s. A woman in militaristic garb pulls out a knife and partially wraps it in cloth, and inserts the knife on the left side of her stomach, eventually…

Saotome Hiromi

Saotome Hiromi is a Japanese actress, writer, stripper, SM performer, benshi, and the only seppuku performance artist in Japan. She also has a deep knowledge of underground culture, and she has written many books in that direction. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kobayashi Masaki

Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese film director, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai film Seppuku (1962), and Ghost Stories (1964). Kobayashi studied ancient oriental arts and philosophy. Kobayashi embarked on a career in film in 1941 when he entered Shochiku…

Mishima Masao

Masao Mishima was born on January 2, 1906 in Niigata, Japan as Masao Nagaoka. He was an actor, known for Seppuku (1962), Banshun (1949) and Jôi-uchi: Hairyo tsuma shimatsu (1967). He died on July 18, 1973 in Tokyo, Japan. Source: IMDb

Mishima Yukio

Mishima Yukio is the pen name of Hiraoka Kimitake (January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, film director, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered…

Arashi Shozo

Bando Toyosho

Tsubaki Emiko

47 Ronin

7.4

Oishi Kuranosuke (Ken Takakura), a chamberlain of the Ako-Asano Clan loses his master to Seppuku. The Asano Lord was forced to commit suicide because of his provoked attack on Lord Kira during the reception for the…

The Loyal 47 Ronin

7.4

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

The 47 Ronin

7.1

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun’s palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit seppuku and deprives the palace and lands from…

The Last Ronin

7.3

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon…

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

7.4

Set during the 17th century when the samurai class struggled to find work. Poverty-stricken samurai Hanshiro enters the House of Ii, run by Kageyu, and requests to commit seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) in their…

Ichikawa Momonosuke

Arashi Ritoku

Toyoda Toshiaki

Toyoda Toshiaki is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Toyoda was first a prodigy in the game of shogi or Japanese chess. He attended the Japan Shogi Association's apprenticeship (Shoreikai) from age 9 with the aim of becoming a professional player. But his interest turned to film and he quit when…