Harakiri

Incredibly tragic and twisted. It captures the despair and the extremes poverty drives people to against their deepest held convictions. A timeless story set about 400 years in the past at this point. If anything, Harakiri has only become more relevant today than it was in the 1960s judging by the way inequality has exploded under global capitalism. Samurai honor parallels the pressure of modern social norms and legality regardless of culture. The movie's final condemnation of the former therefore acts as timeless social criticism. This may be the wokest Samurai movie.