"Kara-Chokey", Way to Die #446, is the third death featured in "Star Death: The Last Generation", which aired February 8, 2012.
Plot[]
Black Wolf (Japanese for Kuro Ōkami), a Japanese Yakuza boss, comes with his enforcers Hiroshi and Jin to his underground sake bar, where those three drank sake until their stomachs were sake-full. After that, Black Work starts to sing on the Bar's Karaoke stand. There are two important rules if you drank Sake with Black Wolf: Don't act like a drunk, and don't interrupt his karaoke session (Jin make both by harass a bar employee). So after seeing Jin singing bad, decide to punish him by a classical Yakuza punishment, severing Jin's finger with help of Hiroshi, and swallowing it, only to have it lodge in his throat.
Hiroshi performs the Heimlich maneuver to save him. He was capable of expel the finger from Back Wolf's throat, but he messed up the maneuver due to his incorrect techniques. This caused a rupture in the boss's aortic valve, causing Black Wolf to die of massive internal hemorrhaging.
Transcript[]
Hiroshi: Sake sake! Sake! Sake sake! Sake! Sake! Sake!
Interviewees[]
- Cary Y. Mizobe - Black Wolf (lead: intended victim)
- Marcus Natividad - Hiroshi
- Takahiro Fukuda - Jin
- Mike Dillon - Yakuza Historian
- Dr. Steven Burstein
Trivia[]
- This was one of six deaths that occurred in Japan. The other five were: Asphyxi-Asian, Bowed Out, Bull-shido, Coffin to Death and Ichiboned.
- It is also the second and final death to take place in Kyoto, Japan (the first death to occur in Kyoto was Coffin to Death).
- This was the one of two deaths that involves the failed Heimlich Maneuver, the other one was Heim-licked.
- In general, the Heimlich Maneuver saves thousands of people from dying, but if it’s done the wrong way, the result is fatal internal bleeding.
- The actor who plays the powerful Yakuza boss, Black Wolf, is Cary Y. Mizobe (known for his Yakuza roles) and who a while ago played a Yakuza boss in the episode "Crime Lords of Tokyo" (from the Nat Geo series "National Geographic Investigates").
- One of Black Wolf's bodyguards (the one who did the unsuccessful heimlich maneuver in Black Wolf) is Marcus Natividad, known for his gangster roles (mainly cartel bosses and Yakuza bosses) and that a while ago also appeared in Crime Lords of Tokyo, as a bodyguard for a Yakuza boss (also played by Cary Y. Mizobe).
- Based on the fact that this unusual death occurred in Kyoto City, it is implied that Black Wolf was the leader (i.e. the oyabun or kumichō) of the Aizukotetsu-kai, one of the two largest Yakuza syndicates in the Kansai region (where Kyoto City is located) alongside the Yamaguchi-gumi (which is the largest Yakuza syndicate in Japan).
- This is the last death to be interviewed by Dr. Steven Burstein.
- This is also the final death in the series where it is associated with an organized crime of some sort.
Goof[]
- Despite being located in Japan (which has right-hand drive steering wheel), when they heading to the bar, you can see the vehicles are all left-hand drive instead of right-hand drive.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Inside Choke
- Finger Die
- Tipped Over
- Fingered
- A Fur Throat
- Nice Knowing Yakuza
- Heim-licked (not to be confused with Way To Die #514, another segment that features a failed attempt on the Heimlich maneuver)
Foreign Names[]
- Karao-Muerto (Karao-Dead) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Karaoke foi? [A play on "Karaoke" and "Cara, o quê foi?" (Dude, what happened?)] (Karawhat Happened?) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Kara-O-Muerte (Kara-O-Death) - European Spanish dub
- Karaoke ka umayin (Karaoke was flied) - Lazoran dub
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