This was my first glimps of this much-talked-about Akira Kurosawa flick, and served as the perfect companion piece to the Western overload I've been having in my John Ford movie marathon. It's a Western in its own right, but one that deviates from the classic Stagecoach style, and looks a lot more like something from Sergio Leone or Clint Eastwood (and I am told was remade as Leone's A Fistfull of Dollars in 1964). I saw it on a sparkling print with a big bunch of film geeks at Doc Films (at the U of Chi.) and had a marvellous time--even when it came to the gory scenes, like this one:
Also, here's a fantastic still:
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