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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Why this pick
Its gold-driven journey, unreliable comic allies, shifting loyalties, and monumental widescreen landscapes echo the earthy, picaresque momentum of The Hidden Fortress.
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MOVIE1958 2h 19m JPN
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Two bedraggled peasants, Tahei and Matashichi, reveal through conversation that they had intended to fight alongside the Yamana clan, but turned up too late, were taken for soldiers of the defeated Akizuki clan, and forced to bury the dead. After quarreling and splitting up, the two are both again captured separately and forced to dig for gold in the Akizuki castle with other prisoners.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Toshirô Mifune
Rokurota Makabe
Susumu Fujita
General Hyoe Tadokoro
Haruo Nakajima
Akisuki soldier
Takeshi Katô
Fleeing, bloody samurai
Takashi Shimura
The Old General, Izumi Nagakura