Coup d'État (戒厳令, Kaigenrei), also titled Martial Law, is a 1973 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida.

[1][2] It is based on the life of nationalist intellectual Ikki Kita and an account of the attempted overthrow of the Japanese government by a group of army officers on 26 February 1936.

[3] It is the third film in a loose trilogy, preceded by Eros + Massacre (1969) and Heroic Purgatory (1970).

[4][5] Coup d'État was Japan's submission to the 46th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.

[6] Coup d'État was screened at the Harvard Film Archive in 2009[7] as part of a retrospective on Yoshida's work.