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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter
There's a very excellent movie from Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi, 'Harakiri', which presents a sort of negative view of Japanese feudal society and its various samurai/daimyo leadership. In the movie, the daimyo of a certain feudal clan tries to present himself and his clan as being honorable and noble, in the Bushido sort of way, but in reality they are greedy and vane.
The story for the movie is fictional, but it was still Kobayashi's intent to persuade people that the idea of the 'honorable Samurai' isn't quite as pure as people like to believe. Regardless if you believe this notion or not, I still highly recommend seeing the movie if you can find it - it's a Kurosawa-quality film.
A quote about the movie from someone who is a much better writer than I am:
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Agreed. This is an excellent film.