"Bull-shido", Way to Die #965, is the second death to be featured in "Death Takes A Vacation", which aired on November 14, 2011.
Plot[]
Kioshi (Basho) was a depressed musician. One of his bandmates, Tinaka, had died in a previous episode and ever since then, he had been in a rut. One day, Kioshi had come to the conclusion that his rock band sucked and he has no talent, so he decides to commit a form of samurai suicide called Seppuku with the help of his bandmates who are crazier and stupider than him. First he recites a poem apologizing for his lack of talent and and then he took a Tanto and stuck it in his stomach and cut his organs, which caused a hemorrhage that killed him and sent him to heaven, then his bandmate decapitated him with a Katana in the traditional style.
Transcript[]
Narrator: He clearly would've made a better samurai than rock star. Showing no emotion, as he ripped his guts wide open.
Narrator: Kioshi was a bad musician. but as a samurai, he could really... cut it.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Kazu Nagahama - Band Member
- Alpha Takahashi - Female Band Member
- Sifu Todd Shawn Tei - Japanese Historian
- Dr. Khyber Zaffarkhan - Interventional Pain Physician
- Yoshi Takanmure - Kioshi (lead:intended victim)
Trivia[]
- There have been 2 deaths caused by intentional suicide not done out of stupidity. The other one is Spyanide.
- Kioshi's band is described as being terrible, but in Coffin to Death, not only were they very popular with the audience, but even the narrator described them as being a good band. However, it was 13 years earlier, so it is possible that they have gotten rusty after being on band for 13 years.
- Then again, they could have lost their touch immediately after Tinaka's death.
- If Kioshi had not sat on the coffin, Tanaka's death wouldn't happen.
- It could have been that Kioshi blamed himself for causing Tinaka's death, which lead to him coming to this conclusion.
- In the previous segment, Kioshi was called "Basho". This implies that the latter was his stage name.
- The narrator mispronounced "Tanto" as "Tarento".
- Also Called “Urning Japanese” on the Spike TV website.
- Vatel killed himself the same way.
- This is based on the deaths of a japanese playwrite and another man.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Kiosh-Died
- Urning Japanese (Spike TV)
Foreign names[]
- Samurai Estupido (Stupid Samurai) - Latin American dub
- Destripado (Disemboweled) - Spanish dub
- Muerte métalica, Jaí! (Metallic death, Hai!) - Pluto TV Spanish dub
- Saudado Diminio (Pirate Fight) - Portuguese dub
- Der Weg des Samurai (The Way of the Samurai) - German dub
- Metal-kiri (Word Play on Harakiri and Metal) - Turkish dub
- Samurai utama ta korte (Samurai must go cut) - Lazoran dub