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SAMURAI REDUX

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Films was Kurosawa's

Tsubaki Sanjûrô / Sanjuro (1962)

This is the sequel to yesterday's Yojimbo but it is really not a sequel.

The same character helps out a group of foolish civic leaders to unseat a corrupt official and to save their kidnapped leader.

And so on.

This one is funnier than the first one. But, at the same time, plot suffers.

Toshirô Mifune is the scruffy ex-Samarai.

This is less a 'western' from the east than a simple comedy.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

A great director is a great director even when he has lame material to work with.

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