Chushingura has a very funny line almost at the end. When the villain is finally cornered the ronin ask him if he will please commit hari-kari. He says (in the subtitles anyway) “Certainly not!”
Doesn’t help him any. He’d been on the job too long.
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Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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