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Title: How not to make a message film
Review: This is the first Kurosawa-Mifune film that I found really difficult to sit thru. In look and style, it felt like a melodramatic silent film. I wish it were silent. I found Mifune's monologue on his internal struggle between his syphillis and his sexual desires (the "quiet duel") so badly acted that it was embarrassing.That monologue expressed the movie's intended lesson. For the analytical, there are embedded lessons on how not to make a message film.
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