History Main / Yubitsume

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

* A Yakuza man who seems to have undergone this serves as the race starter for the final race in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Tokyo Drift''. The actor playing the Yakuza man actually still had his fingers, so they were digitally (excuse the {{Pun}}) removed. This was one thing the Japanese ratings board disapproved of, so the fingers had to be digitally put back in for release there.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. A variation when Heiji Shindo offers the title character a fortune in gold and a lordship if she agrees to give up her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. As guarantee he only asks for her right thumb, which will prevent Mizu from holding a sword properly. He shows her a tray of desiccated thumbs, showing that others have accepted this deal. "You won't be the only lord who wears long sleeves."

* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. A variation when Heiji Shindo offers the title character a fortune in gold and a lordship if she agrees to give up her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. As guarantee he only asks for her thumb, which will prevent Mizu from holding a sword properly. He shows her a tray of desiccated thumbs, showing that others have accepted this deal. "You won't be the only lord who wears long sleeves."

* ''Film/IchiTheKiller'' (film) has an interesting variant. Kakihara cuts off the tip of his tongue instead of his finger. He's also doing it more because he's an extreme masochist than because he really wants to atone for his mistake.

* Metaphorically invoked by the WebAnimation/{{hololive}} [[VirtualCelebrity V-Tuber]] Korone Inugami, who, put on the spot in an earlier stream, declared her {{catchphrase}} to be 'yubi-yubi'. It has since been taken to mean that she'll temporarily take away the viewers' fingers to prevent them from clicking away from her streams (though she'll give them back by the end).

* This is found repeatedly in the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series, being heavily focused around the yakuza. Futoshi Shimano, of the Tojo Clan, doesn't do the ritual with his underlings that fails him: when one bears the bad news that they failed to defeat their target, Shimano cuts off his ''index and middle fingers'' with a straight razor as a warning to the rest.

''WebAnimation/OnTheEdge'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEAGIGqF04 You lose 4 fingers if you sleep with a Yakuza leader's girl...]]'', Yamada gets his pinky finger cut by Kotoge as punishment for sleeping with the boss Sakamoto's girlfriend. However, Sakamoto pulled out his sickle and cut three more of his fingers.

* 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 from there: [[spoiler:the old man asked a pharmacist to chop it off in exchange for forgiving a debt, unfortunately the pharmacist's mentally-retarded son thought the old man had stolen his fiancée (the same young street girl, who'd only met him that afternoon) barged in and jostled them, chopping all the man's fingers off before killing him]], which is why the judge is called in.