We're used to movies in which fanatical Japanese warlords commit hari kari when their diabolical schemes fail, but the bad guys in this movie are just a bunch of drug smugglers. Yet, one by one as they are caught, they do themselves in in excruciating ways for having failed in the sacred cause of drug running. It seems a bit overwrought.
shareYou have to remember, they had Harry Anslinger from the Bureau of Narcotics appear in the movie - I assume there would have been pressure/obligation/desire to make the punishment for drug running look as severe as possible...having them commit hara-kiri is much more dramatic than just marching them off to jail, also it streamlines the narrative.
sharethat makes sense.
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