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The U-M Kurosawa Festival

Learning from the master

by Michael Betzold

posted 10/12/2010

Scores of arrows come flying out of the woods, propelled by unseen men, and pierce again and again the samurai warrior's bare chest. When I first saw Throne of Blood I was no big fan of Shakespeare, Akira Kurosawa, or movie violence, but the scene in which Toshiro Mifune becomes a proud pincushion is indelibly etched in my mind's eye. It was just about

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