History Main / Yubitsume

* The Osakan artist and prosthetics maker [[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/18/woman-makes-fake-fingers-yakuza-japan-reformed-gangsters Yukako Fukushima]] is able to help ex-yakuza who have been subjected to this, by making fake pinkies for them. She does, logically, ask her potential clients to prove her that they have left the "business".

* ''Manga/WayOfTheHouseHusband'': PlayedForLaughs when the ex-Yakuza HouseHusband Tatsu tries to perform yubitsume to apologize for buying his wife a gift that she already owns. She's used to him treating domestic minutiae as SeriousBusiness and knocks him flying before he can follow through.

Subtrope of SelfPunishmentOverFailure.

See also: HonorBeforeReason, {{Seppuku}}, and {{Fingore}}. May invoke MajorInjuryUnderreaction.

* One ''Literature/JudgeDee'' story is about a rich old man who's fallen in love with a young street girl, and to prove his love, he goes as far as to have his finger cut off to join her gang. Unfortunately it goes downhill, which is why the judge is called in.

* ''Anime/AlteredCarbonResleeved''. As his EstablishingCharacterMoment, jerkass Yakuza boss Shinji draws his sword and chops the finger off a minion simply for annoying him, then tucks the severed finger into the man's pocket when the protagonist refuses to accept it.

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* The picture above is from ''Manga/BuchoShimaKousaku''.

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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' has a variation of this, but ''not'', surprisingly, with the quasi-Yakuza/Bosozoku gang "The Ronin". Instead, it's the ''Haitian'' gang that does this, with the gang's leader cutting off his [[TheDragon enforcer's]] ear with a machete for failing to destroy the Saints once, which the guy willingly accepts.

* ''Manga/{{Gokushufudou}}'': PlayedForLaughs when the ex-Yakuza HouseHusband Tatsu tries to perform yubitsume to apologize for buying his wife a gift that she already owns. She's used to him treating domestic minutiae as SeriousBusiness and knocks him flying before he can follow through.

** ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''. The Hand sends two enforcers to punish Harold Meachum by chopping off a finger, a standard practice for them. Alexi, the talking enforcer, points out that Vando, his mute partner, lost two of his fingers and his tongue as punishment for a previous failure. Before they can do so Danny Rand walks in and a fight ensues during which both enforcers are killed, but Harold arranges for their bodies to be disposed of and cuts off his own finger so the Hand won't realise what happened.

*** That same boss is shown to have a cigar box on his desk with several severed fingers in it.
** Mama Mabel from ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' sliced off an associate's finger for breaking her gang’s rule against drug dealing.

** The next Marvel Netflix series ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' comes closer to this trope when the Hand orders Harold Meachum's finger, for leaving his hiding place twice and risking the reveal that [[spoiler:he was actually BackFromTheDead.]]

Yubitsume, also referred to as "yubi o tobasu" (meaning "finger flying"), is a ritual from yakuza tradition that is performed when grovelling in apology just isn't enough. If a yakuza were to dishonor himself or his superiors, he is required to cut off the tip of his left pinky finger and offer it up as an apology to the offended party. And if a yakuza continues to screw up, it might not stop at one pinky tip, continuing in losing more joints and more fingers.

* One episode of ''Series/ThePretender'' has the Centre doing business with the Yakuza. One of their men (an old flame of Miss Parker's) is missing a finger and it's explained that he messed up and was forced to cut off his finger as punishment. Mr. Lyle cynically asks "What do you have to do to lose a thumb?" [[spoiler: You could make a deal with the Yakuza and have Jarod screw it up while other Centre personnel make sure you can't refund, as Mr. Lyle finds out at the end.]]

* ''Film/{{Predators}}'' features a Yakuza enforcer, Hanzo, [[TheSilentBob who is voiceless]] for most of the film. At a certain point, Hanzo reveals he speaks English and is immediately asked why he hasn't talked more throughout the film. He shows two missing fingers on his left hand and replies "Because I speak too much."

The practice originates in feudal Japan, where conventional sword grips rely on use of the pinky finger for control; after yubitsume, the offender becomes weaker and more dependent on his superiors. These days however it is not as widely practiced anymore, and replaced with [[BoringButPractical simply giving the offended party loads of cash]].

* In ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'', priests of the god of wars and slaughter, Kor, cut off their left pinky finger as part of their initiation into priesthood. This is the ninth and final deep ritual cut during this initiation, all because the number nine is this gods holy number.

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* ''Film/BlackRain'': The ''villain'' performs it near the end, when a Yakuza boss insists that he'll only agree to a truce if he does so. Later he uses the same knife to kill the boss.

This is the reason that FourFingeredHands are [[ValuesDissonance a rarity in Japan]].

* In the Website/TGChan adventure ''Roleplay/AcidSoup'', an anthropomorphized bunny is ordered to cut off half her ''ear'' for conducting personal, violent business while wearing gang colors.