5/26/2023 0 Comments Love and honor![]() Despite the film's gloomy goings on, it is never a depressing film. The visual lyricism and subtext of the dialogue is wonderfully scattered in the film. ![]() It builds to a wonderfully tense climax and an excellent and underplayed duel. ![]() Yamada even manages to make the audience appreciate the littlest insect, as a blind Kimmura is, unknowingly, pestered by a butterfly. Like the films pace, the lies start as small, with Kimmura's wife saying that the fireflies have not yet come out, probably to stop him from missing such beautiful sites. Each time the truth surfaces, things get a little worse. What follows is a web of lies, slowly broken down. ![]() Here we find a lord's poison taster left blinded after eating some out of season shellfish. He has perfected his style of serene and subtle tales of ill-begotten samurai. Love and Honor is even greater than Yamada's previous films Twilight Samurai and Hidden Blade.
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