HARAKIRI
Hanshiro Tsugumo the main character, arrives at the house of Lyi to request a place to kill himself or to commit “seppuku” a politely way to call Harakiri. In that time many samurais ended without work and in poverty. The honorable way under the samurai code of ending that was to commit Harakiri. He was informed that the leader will not tolerate bluffers, and told him about the story of a young samurai, Motome Chijiiwa.
Motome was a young samurai teacher, he was married to Hanshiro’s daughter, Miho and had a son called Kingo. Miho and Kingo got sick; this made Motome go to the house of Lyi hoping to receive a few coins to pay a doctor. Desperate for a job or at least some money, many unemployed warriors attempt the "suicide bluff". This was that they went to a wealthy clan requesting permission to perform Harakiri and sometimes the leaders will offer money or a job to avoid a bloody mess. But Motome didn’t have luck doing this and he was forced to kill himself by three samurais, Omodaka Hikoru, Hayato Yazaki and Umenosuke Kawabe. Motome only have a bamboo blade because he sold the real one to help Miho, and was demanded to cut his belly with this, this was an agonizing way of die and to end his suffering he was decapitated. In the movie was said that a samurai should die with a true blade because a blade was a warrior’s soul.
Hanshiro at first didn’t say that he knows Motome, but after being accused of doing suicide bluff, he started telling the story of how he knew Motome, that he was his son-in-law, and the reasons that Motome had for committing “suicide bluff”. Hanshiro were ask three times to choose the master swordsman or second man, he asked for Kawabe, Yazaki and Hikoru the three men that forced Motome to kill himself. But the three times the messenger went for them he returned alone, saying that the chosen men were feeling ill. When Hanshiro hears this he didn’t look surprise because he knew the true reasons of the absences of the “ill” men. He explained the he cut those men’s topknots, the topknots was a symbol of honor and without their topknots was equivalent of losing their heads, laxity and dishonor. At this time we figured out that he was there seeking vengeance. He fought all those man killing four and injuring eight, until he died.