Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on Harakiri and The Trial of Joan of Arc
Japan, 1630. A lone samurai appears at the gates of the Ii clan, in Edo.…
It’s So Hard to Be Old: Ben Hammel (bhammer100) on Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (Year of the Month)
Many critics consider Ran Akira Kurosawa’s final masterpiece. In 1985, after ten long years ruminating…