It really is the best of both worlds.

Rangoes big and impresses on a visual front, also working thunderously well as a reinterpretation ofShakespearesKing Lear.

Theres always an uneasy energy, from scene to scene.

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1’Seven Samurai' (1954)

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13 Assassins

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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival - 1970 (1)

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Hiroyuki Sanada in a fight scene in ‘The Twilight Samurai’ (1)

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Lone Wolf and Cub_ Baby Cart at the River Styx - 1972

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The Sword of Doom - 1966 (1)

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Nameless Ronin stands off against bandits in Yojimbo

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Men riding their horses in battle in Ran.

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Tatsuya Nakadai in the duel scene from Harakiri (1962)

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