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Donald Richie noted that this film’s composer repeatedly used a single chord fading into silence, such as right after a man is shocked upon being presented with a set of all-white clothes. In this film, a shot of a man saying, “she wept, and wept, and wept” is followed by a woman stoically examining the face of a bloody corpse, whose pose resembles that of her fever-stricken son. This film’s opening credits play over tracking shots of empty spaces in its central setting, such as a hall in which (-5[1])yak hair adorns an empty suit of (*) armor. This film’s climactic duel in rippling grass on a windy hill (10[1])is set to aggressive biwa strumming composed by Tōru Takemitsu. This (10[1]-5[1])film’s protagonist, (-5[2])who is played by the star of its director’s Human Condition (-5[1])trilogy, (10[1])narrates flashbacks (10[1])to a clan waiting for a warrior to behead him. For 10 points, Tatsuya Nakadai starred in what 1962 samurai film by Masaki Kobayashi? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[9])

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