I love a good samurai film.
Not for the swordplay, but for what happens when an absolute code meets a world that doesn’t care about your code.
The best ones are philosophical texts in motion. Honour as ontology. Discipline as worldview. Violence as the moment when the story you’ve been living inside reveals whether it can hold.
Yojimbo. Seven Samurai. Harakiri. They’re all asking the same question: what do you do when the system that gave you meaning stops working, and walking away would require becoming someone you don’t know how to be?
The samurai doesn’t get therapy. He gets a choice that doesn’t feel like a choice.
That tension is what makes them still worth watching. The cage is beautiful. The cage is also a cage. And the film won’t tell you which matters more.
https://www.imdb.com/spotlight/samurai-cinema-crash-course/?from_app=ios&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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