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3 /12 MORE SAMURAI

Today's Best NYTimes Best 1176 Film was the second half of Kurosawa's

Shichinin no samurai / Seven Samurai (1954)

It is a fine film.

I saw some stuff I had never seen before.

A fighting horse. Actually a few of them.

I have read about them but never seen one in prolonged action.

I know. That is not what the film is about but it is an example of the copious detail of the production.

This is the main aspect as the plot is somehow predictable. Not because of the film itself. So many films have been made copying it that it seems to be predictable.

It was not at the time.

Seven guys. Seven stories. All that.

The final battle between the samurai and the bandits is played out in the rain. Mud. Wetness.

Japanese films are the wettest I have seen.

I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.

I suppose that it deserves a 5 from the standpoint of fine-filmism but that is not how I approach these. I am just watchin'.

Here is the S S doll set you can buy. I'm sorry. Action figures.

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