Female Harakiri: Glorious Death (1989)

It appears that an odd genre out of Japan (figure that) of Harakiri films was a thing for a while so I went ahead and picked up a set of six of them just to see for myself. The only examples of this I've seen in the past are "Paradise Lost: Riding Habit Harakiri" (which is featured on the aforementioned set) and the final segment of "Psycho: The Snuff Reels", which was actually pretty memorable. As far as the first film up, here, it's a total fucking snoozer.

A woman is seen gazing pensively at an army uniform for a long time before we see her kneeling in front of a ceremonial Harakiri blade (I presume that's what it was...). She fondles it for a long time, drags the tip across her bare breasts a bit and finally starts slicing into her abdomen for an excruciatingly long time. Then, she writhes on the floor and dies and the shit ends...

Gore and effects-wise, there's not much to speak of, here. Not much as far as entrails spilling or blood splatter (though some) makes this one pretty weak, boring and uneventful, overall. It just drags and really leaves one (me, at least) unenthralled and disappointed.