Deep Cut director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back with a sharp left turn in The Samurai and the Prisoner: Silence of the Lambs by way of Seven Samurai! On this Deep Cut Upkeep episode, we return to the director of Cure and Pulse to look for the director’s unnerving tone, restrained direction, societal interrogation, and… matcha-making techniques?
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:06:48 General reactions
00:15:20 Kurosawaisms in The Samurai and the Prisoner
00:20:55 Comedy
00:31:05 Chiyoho’s version of Buddhist ideology
00:36:00 Murashige’s mysterious motivations
00:42:38 Kurosawa and tone
00:49:20 Brainstorming questions for Kurosawa
00:53:28 Our feelings on Kurosawa now