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because our TA was trying ardently to convince us that while a good movie it's not a Japanese movie because its so western with the very evil, very western humanism ending.
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I wasn’t there Adam, so I can only offer what you already know: Kurosawa was always viewed by the Japanese as being too Western. Even after he became famous on the world cinema stage, he was not embraced within Japan.
And this film was made in 1950, only five years after the end of WWII.
I have the new Criterion on my shelf, unviewed. I need to watch it again in order to discuss with confidence.