Sessue Hayakawa
If he’d had his way, Sessue Hayakawa never would have become a Hollywood matinee idol. As a young man in Japan, Hayakawa felt he had shamed his family by failing out of the Japanese Navy.
He locked himself in his room and committed seppuku, believing he was upholding his family’s samurai tradition. He only survived his injuries because his father broke down the door with an axe.