More Masaki.

 

In Masaki Kobayashi’s SAMURAI REBELLION (196 he starts off with a lesson in montage, reminiscent of Eisenstein, where a simple scene is made intensely dramatic just by being splintered into Ecstatic Fragments.

Here is the blade of a sword.

Here is the man who holds the hilt.

Here is a straw effigy, his target.

The sword.

The man.

Now, onlookers…

We draw in on the straw figure, remorselessly.

We’re all in a field!

CHOP!