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Classic Film Review: An early Kurosawa/Mifune/Shimura VD lecture and morality play, “The Quiet Duel” (1949)
Before making his global reputation with epic period pieces from Japan’s samurai past, Akira Kurosawa made movies for domestic consumption in a Japan recovering from the trauma and ruin of fascism and the world war that their militaristic state started. … Continue reading
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