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Seppuku as judicial punishment was abolished in 1873, shortly after the Meiji Restoration, but voluntary seppuku did not completely die out. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 31 ] Dozens of people are known to have committed seppuku since then, [ 36 ] [ 34 ] [ 37 ] including General Nogi Maresuke and his wife on the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, and numerous ...
Harakiri (切腹, Seppuku [2]) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The story takes place between 1619 and 1630 during the Edo period and the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Yukio Mishima (lower) with Shintaro Ishihara in 1956 (on the roof of the Bungeishunjū Building in Ginza 6-chome) Mishima made use of contemporary events in many of his works. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion , published in 1956, is a fictionalization of the burning down of the Kinkaku-ji Buddhist temple in Kyoto in 1950 by a mentally ...
Beach Girls was a six-part 2005 American limited series produced by Fox Television Studios and Robert Greenwald Productions and broadcast by Lifetime. The teleplay by Edithe Swensen , Elle Triedman , and Eric Tuchman was based on the 2004 bestselling novel by Luanne Rice .
The books revolve around five young girls who are part of a club in which they sleepover at each other's houses at least once a week. The television series do not portray the same stories as the books with the possible exception of the first episode which loosely resembled the story where the girls try and set up their 'Brown Owl' with their ...
Shōgun is a 1975 historical novel by author James Clavell that chronicles the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). ). Loosely based on actual events and figures, Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restorat
A look at the rally girls of Myrtle Beach Bike Week. Caroline Williamson. May 12, 2023 at 6:00 AM. Each year more than 300,000 bikers visit the Myrtle Beach area during Harley Week. And for the ...
Two college girls, Ducky and Ginger, meet their naive friend, Sarah, at a Southern California beach house. The house belongs to Sarah's uncle and to their luck has allowed them to use his house for the summer while he is gone. Soon after Ducky and Ginger arrive, the two plan the first of many wild parties, but not without some resistance from ...