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...that their ancestors had been charged by the Emperor with guarding Shimonoseki Strait, the gateway to the Inland Sea. Her uncle was a major general who founded the Japanese cavalry; her brothers and sisters married into top families, including the Matsuokas and Yo-shidas. "Never forget you are a samurai," she said. "Never take second place...
Kuosowa's camera is alert in picking up touches of humor which he finds in the villagers' expressive faces and in the posturing of the novice Samurai Kychukuibo, a frog-like fellow prone to temper fits and muscular ostentation. Certain exquisite shots give this modern film the formal organization of Japan's ancient art; without smothering the immediate drama, Kuosawa lets village tradition and the natural processes of harvest time, love, and old age give a sense of timelessness. The dignity and discipline of the samurai stand in eloquent contrast to the grotesque and the demonical animality of the bandits...
...upon its self-evidence rather than its novelty for impart: that was is Hell we have been told before. The triumph of order, however, becomes more than a mere literary idea as the pictures of village life show it gradually taking on the clarity and internal discipline of the samurai's own lives. The final irony is that the warriors have taught peace too well. The surviving samurai are now not only no longer needed, but alien in the peaceful world of their own creation. --ALICE P. ALBRIGHT
Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*One of the more successful efforts to boost a western out of the wagon ruts of mediocrity. Rerun of old (70) Movie Villain Sessue Hayakawa's magnificent failure to cross the plains as a sword-swinging samurai (TIME...
...Nagata Kings pantomime a superb slapstick parody of baseball. What was missing from the start, by Vegas standards, was a satisfactory supply of nudes. But by week's end a number called Kyoto Doll was turning nightly into a rousing scene of near rape and samurai swordplay. Naturally, before the fight ends, all the girls get their kimonos ripped...