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Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro might disappoint you if you are expecting a movie on the order of his Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, or even perhaps Yojimbo...
Characteristically, Kurosawa employs, at one point, a series of close-ups of increasing detail to take you some-where--in this case to lead you upstream to the villains' headquarters. He used this trick in Seven Samurai. Three such close-ups introduced the scene of the villagers' conference at the beginning of the movie, till at last you could tell that those really were people squatting in a circle and not a brood of chickens...
...JAPAN, though Asia's most modern nation, has two despised minorities. Members of the pariah Eta caste are scorned because their impoverished ancestors were forced to perform the most degrading tasks-including the clearing of corpses from samurai battlefields. Etas perennially try to "pass" into respectable society, often commit suicide if caught. The 600,000 Koreans in Japan are called "senjin," the Nipponese equivalent of nigger. Japanese look down on them because Japan ruled Korea as a slave state for 35 years. In Author Kobo Abe's celebrated novel, Woman in the Dunes, one character, a socialist, notes...
...rivals for the premiership, cool, conservative Eisaku Sato is the stronger. A career bureaucrat, he is backed by his brother, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi (who changed his last name when he was adopted into the samurai family of his wife), as well as by another influential ex-Premier, Shigeru Yoshida; Sato served effectively in both their administrations. A candidate for party president in the Conservative-Liberal elections last July, Sato lost by only ten votes to Ikeda, who had appointed him to the key Ministry of Trade and Commerce. Sato subscribes to Ikeda's policies, although he favors...
...short order, Martin develops a tingling interest in Palmer's half sister Honor Klein, an eerie anthropologist given to such parlor tricks as decapitating a kabuki doll with one swish of a samurai sword. Even more unnervingly, she turns out to be sleeping with her half brother. By this time, Georgie has taken up with Martin's brother, a sculptor. The final curtain finds Palmer with Georgie, Antonia with the sculptor, and Martin with Honor Klein...