Hard Work

I love Kurosawa?s work but this film was hard work. I found that the likenesses between the lord, his brother and the double made it hard to follow things at first. Add to that the subtitles, and finally that way the scenes were drawn out meant I was exhausted after watching this, but I guess in a way that is what it was all about. Great story, great performances, but I would have liked to have seen a bit more character development, which seemed to take a back seat to the action, mainly the battles.