Deep Cut director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back with a sharp left turn in The Samurai and the Prisoner: Silence of the Lambs by way of Seven Samurai! On this Deep Cut Upkeep episode, we return to the director of Cure and Pulse to look for the director’s unnerving tone, restrained direction, societal interrogation, and… matcha-making techniques?

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:06:48 General reactions

00:15:20 Kurosawaisms in The Samurai and the Prisoner

00:20:55 Comedy

00:31:05 Chiyoho’s version of Buddhist ideology

00:36:00 Murashige’s mysterious motivations

00:42:38 Kurosawa and tone

00:49:20 Brainstorming questions for Kurosawa

00:53:28 Our feelings on Kurosawa now

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