If you dig deep enough you can find very old really grainy film of something like this.

Fake.

What film is this from?

Quantum - Yeah I agree, I'm pretty sure they didn't have color film in the days they did this ritual.

Of course this is fake, this is from a movie, you can clearly see its both directed and acted for dramatic effect.

I only saw one cut... What a weakling.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
If you dig deep enough you can find very old really grainy film of something like this.


It's a Yukio Mishima short called "Patriotism: The Rite of Love and Death", you can find it here. It's really one of the Japanese masterpieces in terms of filmmaking, highly depressing, though.

Incidentally, Mishima himself was fascinated with Seppuku, and himself became the last documented case of it in 1970.

edit: I've uploaded it to the Sift, changed the link