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Director of the japanese harakiri series.
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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 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.
Part of the Zankoku-bi: Onna harakiri 01 series.
A wife is frightened by the sound of the phone ringing, and her worried husband uses hypnosis to try to understand the cause of her fear. Eventually, the presence of a man behind the phone emerges. This brings despair and an unprecedented excitement to the husband. What is the true nature of his wife's lewd and sad nature?
The only difference with this one as opposed to the other "entries" - is this one has 2 girls committing suicide, and they are outdoors and wearing samurai style outfits as opposed to Japanese robes or some other "costume". Also, they stab themselves with samurai swords instead of the typical shorter ritual knives...
The Satake family is a distinguished family. The third-generation head of the family, Yumiya, is adopted and has close relationship with his sister.
