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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Chamabara movies are about Samurai by default. In the highly class stratified and violent world of medieval Japan peasants had very little agency. That said;

    7 Samurai is a meditation on how badly the military and militarism of Japan failed the common people. The Samurai explicitly acknowledge that their class are predators who cause harm to the peasants and farmers, and that the peasants are justified in killing samurai to protect themselves. Kikuchiyo is a peasant masquerading as a Samurai who launches in a an emotional indictment of the Samurai class, telling his own painful story and saying that every vice the peasants have comes not from them, but from the oppression of the Samurai. And the Samurai react to this with deep, deep shame, recognizing the truth of his words.

    Ran is just Macbeth

    Rashomon is a mind bending mystery movie that provided one of the best examples of "unreliable narrator" in cinema

    The Hidden Fortress is the movie Star Wars cribbed it's entire plot off of.