Akira Kurosawa is a god. Okay, just accept that. His films are like a Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story, except that they are Japanese...yeah anyway... last night we completed the canon. Three hours of magic realism and medieval Japanese warlords, hidden identities and happy grandbabies. The Shadow Warrior moved a tad slowly, but I think that my impatience has more to do with American culture than inadequate film making. The costumes were superb and the cinematography was absolutely to die for. The dream sequence was ethereal. God...I loved it. When the dead warload was all embalmed in his mummy pot..coool! He looked like he was shellacked, gonna have to talk to Riato about that idea.
