#i sincerely apologise for the overall lack of japanese films on my list

[eastern-lights]

character: *is played by Hiroyuki Sanada* Me: *stops eating popcorn* Oh this guy is super dead.

a (probably incomplete) list follows:

SPOILERS

Ryuji Takayama (Ring) - dies of fear (I think)

Seibei Iguchi (the Twilight Samurai) - gets shot in the Boshin War (talk about a happy ending override) 

Ujio (the Last Samurai) - dies in battle like an absolute badass (but if I had a nickel for every Sanada death in a samurai film with an inexplicably white protagonist, this would be my first nickel)

Yoshio Oishi (47 Ronin) - commits seppuku (and this would be my second nickel, but I cried and so did you)

Kenji (Rush Hour 3) - falls off the Eiffel Tower while fighting Jackie Chan  

Captain Kaneda (Sunshine) - literally gets cooked alive by sunshine

Kaito Takehaya (the Last Ship) - dies off screen of a terminal illness (and so departs the only compelling character of this series)

Hiroshi Hatake (Helix) - somehow manages to bleed out peacefully with an axe lodged in his stomach while sitting at the dinner table with the mummies of his wife and son (don’t even ask)

Shingen Yashida (the Wolverine) - gets shishkabobbed by Wolverine

Sho Murakami (Life) - I don’t even wanna know what happened but it involved a tentacle monster (also he had shown the picture of his newborn daughter to his crew, like, we been knew this would happen)

Akihiko (Avengers: Endgame) - literally just exists to get killed by Hawkeye

Hanzo Hasashi (Mortal Kombat) - perfect casting for a character whose entire arc is that he’s dead, but also too angry to die