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Title: A heartbreaking film
Review: Forget "Ran" Kurowsawa did "King Lear" far better with a post-war Japan setting and adding the fear of nuclear testing into the story of a family business. Toshiro Mifuna was 35 when he played a 63-year old man fighting for his dignity against a family trying to have him declared incompetent. His perfomance is flawless. I grew up in a family business. I saw this film at 20 and then again at 42 and it unnerved me both times. Watch closely as the daughter-in-law moves from the margins to the center with her outrage at the old man's treatment by the family. I kid you not, this was one of Kurosawa's best.
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