Daimyo Tokugawa est ambassadeur du Japon en Occident. Sa fille O-Take-San refusant de devenir prêtresse de la Grotte Sacrée comme l'exige le bonze qui dessert le culte, Tokugawa doit se faire harakiri. Sa fille s'enfuit, va avoir un enfant avec un officier de marine américaine qui l'oublie et se marie. O-Take-San se fait à son tour harakiri….
Voulant mourir dignement, Hanshiro, un samouraï sans ressources, demande à accomplir un suicide rituel dans la résidence du clan Li, dirigé par le chef Kageyu. Essayant de décourager Hanshiro, Kageyu lui conte l’histoire tragique d’un jeune ronin, Motome, venu récemment avec la même requête....
Au XVIIe siècle, le Japon n'est plus en guerre et le pays est dirigé avec fermeté. Hanshirô Tsugumo, un rônin (samouraï errant) sans travail parmi tant d'autres, décide de frapper à la porte du puissant clan des Ii. Reçu par Kageyu Saitô, l'intendant du clan, il lui demande la permission d'accomplir le suicide par harakiri dans la résidence. Tentant de l'en dissuader, Saitô commence alors à lui raconter l'histoire de Motome Chijiwa, un ancien rônin qui souhaitait accomplir, lui aussi, le même rituel..
A painter trying to to finally make his masterpiece decides to risk it all..
Part of the Zankoku-bi: Onna harakiri 01 series..
A school girl kneels on her mat looking over an old photo album containing pictures of people committing seppuku. Becoming aroused by what she sees, she touches herself and licks her fingertips. She pulls out a knife of her own, takes off her uniform, and in a very fetishistic manner proceeds to slit open her stomach and then pull out her guts..
A black and white preface shows a woman in a traditional kimono climbing the stairs as WWII era Mitsubishi Zeros fly through the sky and footage of the Japanese military of the era is superimposed over the footage. She stops at the top of the stairs to say her prayers, rings a bell, and heads inside where the footage is shot in color. She unravels her kimono and rubs her face with the cloth before wrapping her blade and lovingly touching it. She pulls it across her stomach and slits herself open, falling to the mat. She crawls across the mat, dying, slipping in her own slick blood until she can't move anymore..
A woman in a nurse’s outfit sits in a dark room. She kneels on a mat and looks over a knife, touching it with her fingers and examining it. She runs the knife over her stocking clad legs and contemplates suicide. She plunges the blade into her abdominal region and pulls it across..
Directed by Masami Akita,who is also one of Japan's leading noise musicians under the name Merzbow. With a soundtrack by the director himself, this intense and ultra-gory seppuku film shows a young woman taking her own life by an act of ritual harakiri..
A young frustrated poet moves into an old communal apartment in Saint Petersburg. Incompetence leads him to the constant contemplation of a suicide and anticipation of a post-mortem fame. However, the apartment he’s settled in is not suitable for meeting one’s end because of the lack of hot water. It doesn’t bother the tenants since they’re too afraid of a mysthical ‘Babay’ (Boogeyman) allegedly killing everyone who dares to fix it. The protagonist refuses to accept these terms and challenges Babay confonting him in his own room..
A number of shocking images that cannot be shown to others!.
Durant la guerre russo-japonaise, un officier anglais, amoureux de la femme d'un amiral japonais, s'engage sur le navire du mari. Il est tue, mais le mari victorieux, qui ne peut supporter d'avoir perdu l'amour se sa femme, se fait hara-kiri..
