The Spectacle of a Sport showcases so much of what is brilliant about the series.
The film is a black comedy with an upbeat, politically nondenominational message.
What Hiroshi Inagaki manages to pull off with the third episode in the samurai trilogy is nothing short of remarkable.
The film shows us a hero struggling to control his nature and who finally finds that control.
Those looking for an action-packed saga that takes place a long time ago and far, far away need search no further.
Was General Spanky as funny in 1936 as it is today?
He’s roughly a few thousand years old and still a hopeless romantic…or a tana leaf junkie, depending on who you ask.
How better to follow upon the heels of an all-Deadwood week than with an ode to the western towns that preceded the title locale?
Each picture has something a little different to say about authority and the people below it.