Thursday, December 22, 2011

Inoue's THIRD SHADOW WARRIOR by Nanjo

Prince and Pauper were never like this. A farmboy is glad for the chance to become a samurai, but when he is made shadow of the lord he is also made to hide himself in the dark. When the lord starts shedding body parts, farmboy rebels. Chien Andalou meets Oldboy in the scene of the removal of an eye.

Norio Nanjo might be offering us a leftist cautionary tale against upward mobility. In a dog eat dog world we are bound to be either flea-bitten or fleas ourselves. On, as Saura put it, raise crows and they will peck out your eyes.

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