@Courtesy of Netflix Thanks to the reforms of the Meiji Restoration, being a ronin (a masterless samurai, like Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo) no longer looked so bad to old school warriors following the Bushido code. Even ronin had a level of status the new government denied the samurai, now called Shizoku. They lost their honor…
The Japanese film Offbeat Cops, part of the 2022 New York Asian Film Festival line-up, presents a feel-good story about making amends, written and directed by Eiji Uchida. The film begins and ends with the mystery and solution of the “pre-called burglaries” case. It involves a small gang that phones elderly women and deceitfully gains…
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