Filmed in Eastman color. It looks great, but the colors were so bright and the costumes, which I assume were authentic, were so outlandish that it was hard to take seriously. Maybe if I knew what they wore those little hats for. Morito didn't seem like much of a threat even after he killed a man.
Morito meets Kesa when she volunteers to act as a decoy so the Lord's sister can escape. When Kesa is lying unconscious, Morito revives her by taking a mouthful of water and doing a spit take on her.
The other thing that stood out to me was arrows silently hitting someone or landing in the sand while samurai ride down the a beach on horses. It wasn't like in Westerns where you hear the arrows whistling through the air and hitting whatever they hit.
Available on the Criterion Channel.
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