Not terribly good. Script by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, Directed by Kazuo Mori. It's mostly a group of samurai hanging around waiting to ambush another samurai and his entourage and they pass a saki house, I guess it is. They hang around and have flashbacks explaining what's going on. They're after the guy who murdered a family member. They seem like regular guys who are horrified to find themselves having to kill people with swords which seems like it would make a pretty good movie. Like the son in Yojimbo who is deeply disturbed when his parents tell him he should kill Toshiro Mifune.
Available on the Criterion channel.
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