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The anti-bushido message of the very fine film Harakiri (1962) applies curiously well to capitalism. Which I guess in some ways approaches feudalism wherever democracy's sufficiently undermined? Don't know enough about him to swear that was Kobayashi's intention though, or whether this was more directly about treatment of WW2 veterans or Hiroshima victims - the area's featured prominently. A samurai shouldering empty emperor armor seems to be A pretty culture-specific reference, but then the scene with the sword prefiguring Spielberg's Schindler's pen anguish was surely universal in its implications. I saw Samurai Rebellion a few years ago but only remember the (similar) courtyard fight and (similar) windswept grasses. And that there was, you know, rebellion.