There is something magical about Kurosawa films. They just inject themselves right into your soul. This film is amazing, yet I can’t succinctly say why — it just is. You can really see where films like A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and KILL BILL are influenced by this. Sanjuro is such an interesting character. He starts off at such self interested place, but he has so much honor in him, that it really does seem like he does everything he does, only because of the couple he passes in the street on his way into town. Westerns and Samurai films are so damn similar and this is the most Western Samurai film I’ve ever seen.
