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With Saburo away, Taro and Jiro begin feuding over succession as head of the clan. Egged on by his wife, Lady Kaede, Taro uses Hidetora's insolent jester Kyoami as a pretext for stripping him of his powers. Hidetora is made persona non grata and forced to relocate to Saburo's abandoned castle, which is then sacked by Taro and Jiro's forces. Unable to find a blade to commit seppuku with, Hidetora goes mad and wanders, dazed, from the burning castle, [[World Half Empty|as the world crumbles around him]].
Kurosawa wrote the screenplay ten years before its eventual release, [[Doing It for
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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: One of the main themes of the film.
* [[Arrows
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: Hidetora didn't become the sole head of the Ichimonji clan through sycophantic grovelling. He paved his way to kingship through war and battle. But when he retired...
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Entirely subverted with Taro and Jiro. Jiro is especially cowardly, and his lack of strong back-bone makes him Lady Kaede's obedient little lap dog. He deliberately ignores Kurogane's veteran military wisdom and commits to foolhardy strategies that {{spoiler|ultimately lead to the destruction of his kingdom}}. ▼
* [[The Atoner]]: Hidetora sports shades of this by the end.
▲* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Entirely subverted with Taro and Jiro. Jiro is especially cowardly, and his lack of strong back-bone makes him Lady Kaede's obedient little lap dog. He deliberately ignores Kurogane's veteran military wisdom and commits to foolhardy strategies that
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: When he was sane, Hidetora was this.
* [[Camp Gay]]: A drag artist plays Kyoami, after the fashion of traditional Japanese ''Noh'' theater.
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* [[Coitus Uninterruptus]]
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Taro, Jiro, and Saburo are yellow, red, and blue respectively. Hidetora is for the most part coded with white, and this is reflected in Saburo's flags, which have white stripes in them.
* [[The Dragon]]: Kurogane.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Basically, the ending states that God is blind.
** Either that or that he just doesn't care and is purposefully spiteful.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: [[The Dragon|Kurogane]], a man who is no stranger to war, bloodshed and assassinations, is outraged when Lady Kaede orders [[The Pollyanna|Lady Sué's]] death.
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* [[Eye Scream]]: Tsurumaru. Done offscreen, thankfully.
* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: Lady Kaede exploits
* [[Four-Star Badass]]: Kurogane.
* [[Gender Flip]]: The feuding children are male, as opposed to the ones in ''[[King Lear]]''.
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* [[Gorn]]: The battle scenes are remarkably brutal. The sack of the Third Castle inspired the aftermath of Omaha Beach in ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]] You don't need to see a beheading when the results of it are even more obvious. Results in [[High-Pressure Blood]].
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Taro.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Part of Hidetora's [[Character Development]]. From [[Complete Monster]] to traumatized, lonely, [[The Atoner|remorseful old man]]. ▼
* [[It Got Worse]]
* [[The Jester]]: Kyoami's job.
* [[Jidai Geki]]
* [[Karmic Death]]:
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* [[Kill It
* [[Lady Macbeth]]: Lady Kaede.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Hidetora gets a big, heaping helping of it.
* [[Losing Your Head]]:
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Lady Kaede.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]
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** Among the three brothers, Saburo does not succumb to any lust for power.
* [[Perspective Flip]]
* [[Playing the Heart Strings]]: During the sack of the third castle.
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Lady Sue.
▲* [[Playing the Heart Strings]]: During the sack of the third castle. {{spoiler|The music is cut short by Taro's assassination}}.
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]
* [[Rain of Arrows]]: The attack on the Third Castle.
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* [[Samurai]]
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Hidetora. Kyoami moans that the fool is now acting like a King, and the King is acting like a fool.
* [[Scenery Gorn]]: Oh, man, the attack on the Third Castle scene. Oh, God. [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] but that will overlap as [[Nightmare Fuel]] for a lot of people. The sheer brutality of that scene was even the basis for the Omaha Beach scene in [[Saving Private Ryan]], right down to the soldier holding his torn arm. ▼
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Some of the establishing shots are quite likely amongst the most beautiful in cinema history.
** Not even just the establishing shots, as the framing is ''excellent'' in this film: it would be fair to say that any scene where the camera doesn't move would be just as good a painting.
** The colors! The colors!!
* [[Seppuku]]: Lady Kaede's mother after Hidetora took the First Castle; Hidetora's concubines during the attack on the Third Castle. In addition,
▲* [[Scenery Gorn]]: Oh, man, the attack on the Third Castle scene. Oh, God. [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] but that will overlap as [[Nightmare Fuel]] for a lot of people. The sheer brutality of that scene was even the basis for the Omaha Beach scene in [[Saving Private Ryan]], right down to the soldier holding his torn arm.
▲* [[Seppuku]]: Lady Kaede's mother after Hidetora took the First Castle; Hidetora's concubines during the attack on the Third Castle. In addition, {{spoiler|Jiro, Kurogane, and Jiro's other main retainers presumably do so offscreen when the First Castle is about to be destroyed.}}
** Averted in Hidetora's case. [[Breakable Weapons|It pays to have an extra sword on hand in times like these.]]
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* [[Smug Snake]]: Lady Kaede.
* [[The Sons and
* [[Theme Naming]]: Taro, Jiro and Saburo literally mean "first son," "second son" and "third son
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: There are some things worth leaving behind...
* [[Tragedy]]
* [[Trash the Set]]: The burning of the Third Castle.
▲* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Part of Hidetora's [[Character Development]]. From [[Complete Monster]] to traumatized, lonely, [[The Atoner|remorseful old man]].
* [[Unfriendly Fire]]:
* [[War Is Hell]]
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The boar hunt and the final shots of Tsurumaru.
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* [[Wise Prince]]: Saburo.
* [[Yandere]]: Lady Kaede.
* [[Youngest Child Wins]]:
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