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...RIVAL FACTIONS are equally immoral and led by men of ordinary appearance: a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) and a sake merchant (Takashi Simura). These men manipulate groups of extraordinarily conceived caracatures of evil. The degeneracy of the merchants is hidden beneath masks of respectibility and only when they make their plans is the full measure of their malevolence revealed. With their henchmen, however, the situation is different. They boldly flaunt their fugitive status and are terrifyingly eager to implement the merchant's plans for destruction. A henchman (Tatsuys Nakadai) of the sake merchant epitomizes the hyperbole. The only person...
...Brel says some pretty hard things. You know. 'There are truths you've never told.' His truths are real, not theatrical. Brel's philosophy is if we only have love we can get it together--maybe. I played 'Amsterdam' for a good friend of mine; he was a merchant marine. When this guy gets misty-eyed, it's a real tribute to Brel (and to him, too). We're feeding and wining our audience, then singing to them about how the middle class gets fat and gets drunk. It's only half-serious, but it's half-serious...
...poet Nguyen Du wrote two centuries ago of a beautiful lady, Thuy Kieu, who became the concubine of a ruthless merchant to save her father from the clutches of a tax collector...
...Thuy Kieu's request, her betrothed Kim Trong, married her sister Thuy Van. Yet Kim Trong's original love for her never faded throughout Thuy Kieu's miserable association with the merchant...
...transplanted American versed in the babel of the Chicago commodity exchange, a merchant prince in wheat. Black Thursday reduced him to a bankrupt husk...