Der Untergang innehåller en mängd självmordsscener.
Paul Schraders mosaisk-biografiska film
Mishima om den store japanske författaren som begick seppuku 1970 innehåller två mycket vackra (och bombastiska) självmordsscener.
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When it gets right down to it - Mishima Yukio (Hiraoka Kimitake) must have thought that taking his own life by the traditional method of Seppuku (ritual suicide) was the single most important artistic and personal act of his life. To understand him you must work backwards through his death and try to understand why he did what he did. In death, the writer Mishima Yukio was transcended by the political act of seppuku performed by Hiraoka Kimitake - and he achieved the harmony of pen and sword, the perfect marriage between what he meant and what he did. Art and action united.