Harakiri

“What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.”

Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) is a masterless samurai with no work and no family, and he walks into the courtyard of the House of Iyi asking for a place to kill himself. The clan's senior counselor doubts him, suspecting a man angling for charity instead of an honorable end. Kobayashi sets the proceedings inside the Iyi manor, where the armor stands in its place and the gathered samurai wait in rows.