The Greatest Horror Director Is Not A Horror Director (Masaki Kobayashi)

A video essay in which I talk about Masaki Kobayashi, his movie Kwaidan / Kaidan, Harakiri, The Human Condition trilogy, and also there's a shot of Paul Feig in there somewhere. They're all in the Criterion Collection.
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Rich's Bushido takedown article:
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/bushido/

Kazuma Hashimoto's Political Myth of the Samurai article:
https://www.polygon.com/2020/7/23/213...

Some other things you might be interested in:

Three Criterion essays on Masaki Kobayashi
https://www.criterion.com/current/pos...
https://www.criterion.com/current/pos...
https://www.criterion.com/current/pos...

Tatsuya Nakadai talking about the blades on Harakiri
https://www.christies.com/en/stories/...

35mm photo: By Rotareneg - en:Image:35mm_film_audio_macro.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...