read full review: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/chushingura-harakiri/
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The figure of the ronin, or unemployed samurai, is a staple of Japanese
movies that received its most celebrated treatment in Akira Kurosawa’s
“Yojimbo” and “The Seven Samurai”. Recently I saw two movies made in
1962—both available from Netflix—that offered starkly contrasting views
of their ronin heroes, suggesting as a corollary alternative takes on
Japanese culture and values.
