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The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976
Cannot rate properly bc I did nap throughout unfortunately.
However big fan of Eastwood’s themes of disillusionment post war, and his found family of drifters collected along the wayTranslated from by -
Harakiri 1962
Stripped back, striking and socially resonant.
Harakiri’s reputation proceeds it and left me awaiting a grand epic akin to the works of Kurosawa and yet I couldn’t be more glad I was wrong.
What amounts to essentially a two hour philosophical debate grips you from the very start with its cold and terrifying visuals immediately surmising the power and threat of the Iyi Clan.
This power, of a zealous iron fisted establishment so wrapped in traditional beliefs that such human…Translated from by