Build a movie plot around this: How does Motome die? Forced suicide.
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Edo, 1630. Tsugumo Hanshiro arrives at the estate of the Ii clan and says that he wishes to commit seppuku within the courtyard of the palace. To deter him Saito Kageyu (Rentaro Mikuni), the Daimyo's senior counselor, tells Hanshiro the story of another ronin, Chijiiwa Motome formerly of the same clan as Hanshiro.Motome arrived at the palace a few months earlier and made the same request as Hanshiro. Infuriated by the rising number of "suicide bluffs", the three most senior samurai of the clanYazaki Hayato, Kawabe Umenosuke, and Omodaka Hikokuropersuaded Saito to force Motome to follow through and kill himself. Upon examining Motome's swords, their blades were found to be made of bamboo. Enraged that any samurai would "pawn his soul", the House of Ii forced Motome to disembowel himself with his own bamboo blade, making his death slow, agonizingly painful, and deeply humiliating.Despite this warning, Hanshiro insists that he has never heard of Motome and says that he has no intention of leaving the Ii palace alive. After a suicide pavilion is set up in the courtyard of the palace, Hanshiro is asked to name the samurai who shall behead him when the ritual is complete. To the shock of Saito and the Ii retainers, Hanshiro successively names Hayato, Umenosuke, and Hikokurothe three samurai who coerced the suicide of Motome. When messengers are dispatched to summon them, all three decline to come, saying they are suffering from a life-threatening illness.After provoking their laughter by calling bushido a facade, Hanshiro recounts his story to Saito and the Ii retainers. He did, he admits, know Motome after all. In 1619, his clan was abolished by the Shogun. His Lord decided to commit seppuku and, as his most senior samurai, Hanshiro planned to die alongside him. To prevent this, Hanshiro's closest friend performed seppuku and left a letter assigning to Hanshiro the guardianship of his teenage sonMotome. Despite Hanshiro's pleas, his Lord forbade him to kill himself.In order to...