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Mizoguchi’s The 47 Ronin (1942) skips sword fights for soul-searching. A wartime epic full of honor, grief, and resistance wrapped in ritual. The revenge? Off-screen. The gut-punch ending? All there.
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The 47 Ronin: Mizoguchi’s Epic of Honor and Resistance

Look around you. Everyone here has brought his short sword as well as a cotton robe, possibly never to see his family again, prepared to die.

VIKINGS vs SAMURAI
Sun WukongJun 17, 2023
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