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P: Preservation Material NP: Negative Picture B: 800' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Black & White Sound 3960 Akira Kurosawa Director: Akira Kurosawa Toho Kabushiki Kaisha Criterion Collection
A rōnin (masterless samurai) wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. He overhears an elderly couple lamenting that their only son has given up farm labouring in order to join the rogues who have descended on a nearby town. The stranger heads to the town where he meets Gonji, the owner of a small izakaya who advises him to leave. After sizing up the situation, the stranger says he intends to stay as the town would be better off with both sides dead. He first convinces the weaker Seibei to hire
A rōnin (masterless samurai) wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. He overhears an elderly couple lamenting that their only son has given up farm labouring in order to join the rogues who have descended on a nearby town. The stranger heads to the town where he meets Gonji, the owner of a small izakaya who advises him to leave. After sizing up the situation, the stranger says he intends to stay as the town would be better off with both sides dead. He first convinces the weaker Seibei to hire
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- Toshiro Mifune, Eijirō Tōno, Kamatari Fujiwara
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