Comments on: SEVEN SAMURAI by Akira Kurosawa

By: John Doe

John Doe — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:59:03 +0000

Interesting connection between Kurosawa and Godzilla? There may something to it. Did you know that Godzilla’s director,Ishiro Honda, and Kurosawa were good friends? And that Honda was Kurosawa’s assistant director on films like Kagemusha and RAN?

By: Dan Schneider

Dan Schneider — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:47:34 +0000

SS: Basically, I think you were seeing a moral judgment where only a desciption was intended.

By: Dan Schneider

Dan Schneider — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:44:57 +0000

SS: The description of the wife seems apt, since she has been forced into sex for money. Whores have all sorts of reasons for what they do. A small % are forecd into white slavery (yellow slavery?), but that’s merely a description of what she was doing.
While you code quoting may be correct, the fact that she felt dishonored bespeaks her feeling even more the whore than her husband likely felt.
Similar words mean different things to diff people, but if they reference the same act, the tag is applicable.

By: S Satt

S Satt — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:36:50 +0000

The description of the abducted farmer’s wife seems to be missing the point on the emotional dynamic of their relationship. She was happily married, then kidnapped and enslaved, so the words “whore” and “prostitute” are hardly applicable. The scene where she is the first in the bandits’ lair to realize there is a fire, and _intentionally_ does not raise an alarm, is one of the film’s more powerful moments. According to the social codes of the society she has been dishonored, even though what happened was completely against her will. She runs back into the flames when she sees her husband because she knows he still loves her and she loves him too much to place him in the position of being associated with her dishonor.