Message 335

Yesterday I got a haircut and started reading The Economist. In the evening I watched a DVD of the movie Kagemusha, which is a three hour epic Japanese film directed by Kurosawa. It was beautifully staged and filmed with incredible colors and scenery, but the subtitles are distracting, and the motivations of the characters are hard to comprehend, because of my lack of understanding of Japanese culture and history no doubt, so I give it only three stars.