NYTimes review, grab it quick before it expires and goes into the paid section..
Other Great Artists of the Samurai Epic THE Film Forum's bracingly sanguinary "Summer Samurai" series is, among other things, a useful reminder that before Chinese martial artists became iconic figures for Western action-movie aficionados, stern, unsmiling Japanese swordsmen were pretty much all we knew about Eastern styles of violence and the rigorous codes that governed them. We learned much of this, of course, from the peerless Akira Kurosawa, five of whose pictures (including the greatest of them all, the 1954 "Seven Samurai") are in this 15-film series. But for many of Film Forum's patrons, I suspect, the revelation of the four-week extravaganza, which starts Friday, will be the fiercely beautiful work of Masaki Kobayashi. His two movies here, "Harakiri" (1962) and "Samurai Rebellion" (1967), are amazing: stirring, subversive and, beneath their dauntingly severe surfaces, sneakily lyrical. ...More...
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