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The Hermeneutics of Samurai Culture in Film and TelevisionBefore my first boxing match I read Hagakure. Reading it again through Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Mishima, Jarmusch and Samurai Champloo, I find in the samurai ideal a modern invention and a masculine death drive, and in the best films its undoing.
Kwaidan: Strange Tales of Nature and WarMasaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan is usually filed under horror. Seen on a big screen, its four ghost stories read better as mysteries: about a nature full of spirits, and about the dead of a lost war.
Kwaidan: Strange Tales of Nature and WarMasaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan is usually filed under horror. Seen on a big screen, its four ghost stories read better as mysteries: about a nature full of spirits, and about the dead of a lost war.