The Last Samurai

designed to be lost 30 or 40 times a day.

I say to L: Kurosawa won a prize for a film he made before this one, called Rashomon, about a woman raped by a bandit

The fight begins. A raises his pole and pauses. B holds his pole over his head and shouts.
A draws back his pole in a beautiful sweeping movement, and pauses. B runs forward.
A raises his pole suddenly and brings it down.
B says it was a draw.
A says he won. He’d have killed him with a real sword. He walks away.
B wants to fight with swords.
A says he’d kill him, it’s stupid.
B draws his sword and insists.
A draws his sword.
He raises it and pauses.
B holds his sword above his head and shouts.
A draws back his sword in a beautiful sweeping movement. B runs forward.
A raises his sword suddenly and brings it down. B falls down dead.