Message from dnakashima

[Anonymous]

let me defend one of my favorite movies. the most important part of this movie for me is that the dialectic between the samurai and farmers is shown. most period pieces have heroic, romantic samurai and rarely show them having a negative effect on the farmers they control and oppress. The farmers too are shown in a fair and hardly romantic light. they are greedy and petty at times. but the order that the samurai are supposed to have given the country is absent and the farmers reap no benefits from supporting them with rice tax. there's another film with nakadai tatsuya (is it sword of doom or hara-kiri?) where he says something along the lines that the samurai are just a bunch of murderers. the truth lies somewhere in between but like one poster on this site said about last samurai, the rights and culture of the samurai were not open to all.

dan