Yuuri Sunohara

Part of the Zankoku-bi: Onna harakiri 01 series.

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 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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bonus to Harakiri (Boobs and Blood Boxset). The film is comprised of scenes taken from Female Harakiri Works Collection 7: Cold Night omitting narrative and scenes of blood.

Kinbaku film staring Youri Sunohara