Ep. 39: Harakiri
Cinema of Meaning
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The Last 15 Minutes of Sugumo
The final confrontation kind of begins like the last 15 minutes is just him fighting everyone that's left basically and eventually dying or he does actually do it a sort of Harakiri at the end when he's about to get shot. I don't think it was as much revenge as much as he wanted to expose the corruption and also the hypocrisy of the clan because you know they say that when a samurai loses his stop knot it's more honorable for them to die but instead all those three leaders that forced those harsh traditions or those harsh principles on his son-in-law instead they didn't enforce them on themselves.
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