• Kurosawa’s Birthday Month, Day 7

    Congratulations to yesterday’s winner, Rotem! Rotem’s favorite use of music or sound in a Kurosawa film is:

    In Ikiru, after his visit to the doctor where Kanji is notified about his situation, and that he has only a few months to live, we follow him in the next scene walking in the street. Instead of adding a sad tune to the scene, or introducing us to his thoughts via voice-over, all we get is silence: we hear nothing, not the people walking around him, not the cars, not the birds—absolutely total silence. But after a few seconds, the sounds burst back in: a loud sound of cars and people all mixed together is suddenly introduced to us—because they are now a threat on Kanji, who crossed the street while there is danger around him—a danger which he didn’t notice because he was overwhelmed by the doctor’s diagnosis he got moments ago. This is a brilliant use of sound, or un-use of it: In the most difficult moment of a man, what can words say? What meaning does music have? All we are left with is the nothingness of the acceptance of the upcoming death.

    We also liked Doug Bray’s description of this moment in The Hidden Fortress:

    Kurosawa’s use of the same song twice in The Hidden Fortress, first as a lighthearted celebration at the fire festival, then as a eulogy the princess sings awaiting death; she sings the whole song with not one cut or movement. Using the same song to express a moment of happiness and one of utter despair, brilliant.

    March is Akira Kurosawa month at Criterion. On the twenty-third, the great Japanese filmmaker would have been one hundred years old. For this centennial celebration, we will be posting trivia questions and other contests all month, and giving away a different prize every weekday.

    Today’s prompt:

    Create an anagram using the title of a favorite Kurosawa film, or an actor or character’s name.

    Please respond by commenting below, and we’ll choose our favorite tomorrow. You must leave a valid e-mail address to be eligible for the prize (a Criterion or Janus T-shirt).

    Contests

141 comments

  • By Carl Garcia
    March 09, 2010
    06:57 PM

    Takashi Shimura = Samurai Hath Ski
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    March 09, 2010
    06:58 PM

    LAZARUS DUE
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    March 09, 2010
    06:59 PM

    Dodesukaden Dead Duke Son
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  • By Pouya G.
    March 09, 2010
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    Tengoku to jigoku Toke Jug Gook Unit
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  • By Andy L
    March 09, 2010
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    Throne of Blood Do The Born Fool
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  • By Dan Coffey
    March 09, 2010
    07:02 PM

    Toru Takemitsu = Outtake Truism
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  • By RYAN MCGLADE
    March 09, 2010
    07:03 PM

    Seven Samurai = Aneurism Vase
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  • By Aldo Mora-Blanco
    March 09, 2010
    07:03 PM

    Aldo MB Setsuko Hara "Uh, Sore at Ska!"
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  • By Mitch
    March 09, 2010
    07:04 PM

    Seven Samurai Near As I'e Sum
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  • By Matthew Law
    March 09, 2010
    07:04 PM

    Seven Samurai = Remains Suave
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  • By Mitch
    March 09, 2010
    07:04 PM

    Seven Samurai Near As Ive Sum
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  • By Drew V.
    March 09, 2010
    07:04 PM

    Rashomon = ah morons... Stray Dog = rad stogy
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  • By Carl Garcia
    March 09, 2010
    07:04 PM

    Sanshiro Sugata = Harassing Autos
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  • By Brett Kessler
    March 09, 2010
    07:05 PM

    SEVEN SAMURAI = AMEN SUAVE SIR
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  • By Jeff Scharlau
    March 09, 2010
    07:05 PM

    Throne of Blood = Boner Foothold
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  • By Kyle
    March 09, 2010
    07:06 PM

    Rashomon = Sham, or no?
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  • By Jaime Grijalba
    March 09, 2010
    07:07 PM

    Ah... Morons! (Rashomon)
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  • By JARED UNDERBRINK
    March 09, 2010
    07:07 PM

    RASHOMON = CRITERION RULES!! /doesnt work //pandering
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    March 09, 2010
    07:08 PM

    DRUNKEN ANGEL L.A. NERD/ KEG NUN
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  • By Fredrik
    March 09, 2010
    07:09 PM

    Throne of blood = On hold for Tobe Would have been fun to see Tobe Hooper do a remake of Throne of blood :P
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  • By Michael
    March 09, 2010
    07:09 PM

    TOSHIRO MIFUNE FIRE HIM ON TO US
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  • By Ana
    March 09, 2010
    07:10 PM

    Shizukanaru Ketto = Authorize at Skunk
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  • By Jaime Grijalba
    March 09, 2010
    07:10 PM

    Oh, it was already done... then... Finish Our Tome (Toshiro Mifune)
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  • By Andrew Bacon
    March 09, 2010
    07:10 PM

    Ran = NAR
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  • By Benjamin T
    March 09, 2010
    07:11 PM

    The Bad Sleep Well = Beth Please Dwell
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  • By Robert Pina
    March 09, 2010
    07:12 PM

    Dreams Ad Rems
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  • By Sara
    March 09, 2010
    07:12 PM

    Rashomon = Rash Moon
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  • By Jeff Green
    March 09, 2010
    07:13 PM

    Kikuchiyo (from Seven Samurai) = Hi! (Kick you!)
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  • By Dan Thompson
    March 09, 2010
    07:15 PM

    The Bad Sleep Well = Belated Hell Spew
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  • By Kevin Sheehan
    March 09, 2010
    07:15 PM

    I was inspired by his performance in Ikiru, my personal favorite Kurosawa film, for the following anagram: Takashi Shimura = His Karma Hiatus
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  • By Birgir Smári Ársælsson
    March 09, 2010
    07:16 PM

    Toshiro Mifune - Im out of shrine
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    March 09, 2010
    07:16 PM

    Stray Dog = Artsy God
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  • By Robert Pina
    March 09, 2010
    07:17 PM

    Hideko Takamine A Mad Honkie Tike
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  • By Tom S
    March 09, 2010
    07:18 PM

    Throne of Blood Honor Debt, Fool
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    March 09, 2010
    07:19 PM

    NRA
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  • By Danny Crocker
    March 09, 2010
    07:20 PM

    Hurry tutor! So foregone! (No regrets for our youth)
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  • By Andrew T
    March 09, 2010
    07:20 PM

    Bad Sleep Well Please, Dwell Be
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  • By Rob Glenn
    March 09, 2010
    07:20 PM

    Akira Kurosawa's Dreams Our armada wreaks a kiss
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  • By Kevin
    March 09, 2010
    07:22 PM

    Ranmaru Mori I ran rum roam
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  • By Matt V
    March 09, 2010
    07:23 PM

    Kagemusha = A Huge Mask
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  • By Bret Bynum
    March 09, 2010
    07:23 PM

    Haku Chi (A vital life force that you wear around your head as a crown) Hakuchi
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  • By Dan Giacobbe
    March 09, 2010
    07:25 PM

    Anagram for Taketori Washizu from A Throne of Blood. A Haiku Zeros Twit
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    March 09, 2010
    07:25 PM

    The Bad Sleep Well "Pa Bleeds Wet. Hell!"
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  • By JASON
    March 09, 2010
    07:29 PM

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  • By Timothy Faulkner
    March 09, 2010
    07:34 PM

    I LIVE IN FEAR = Naive Lifer, I
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  • By Scott Simms
    March 09, 2010
    07:36 PM

    Akira Kurosawa's Dreams = A Karaoke war disarms us.
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  • By Chris Martin
    March 09, 2010
    07:38 PM

    The Bad Sleep Well hell sled bat weep
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  • By Benjamin Crais
    March 09, 2010
    07:38 PM

    High and Low: Had howling.
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  • By Galen
    March 09, 2010
    07:40 PM

    No Brothel Food (Throne of Blood)
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  • By Matthew Hammond
    March 09, 2010
    07:42 PM

    Hidden Fortress - He frets droids.
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  • By Richard LaRue
    March 09, 2010
    07:43 PM

    Dodeskaden: Sake Nodded
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  • By Tom Helberg
    March 09, 2010
    07:44 PM

    Tengoku to jigoku Egg Join Kook Tutu
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  • By Sue
    March 09, 2010
    07:46 PM

    TOSHIRO MIFUNE Hirsute if moon
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  • By Kevin Werkheiser
    March 09, 2010
    07:46 PM

    One Wonderful Sunday Fun Soon (Rudely) Waned
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  • By Tom McFadden
    March 09, 2010
    07:51 PM

    Seven Samurai = Suave Marines
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  • By CHRIS BEE
    March 09, 2010
    07:52 PM

    Drunken Angel ----Ankle Nerd Gun I live in Fear---- Fear Evil In I
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  • By Jessica Schneider
    March 09, 2010
    07:54 PM

    High and Low = Lie down ho
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  • By Bomtastic
    March 09, 2010
    07:59 PM

    Defenders Shirt Hot (The Hidden Fortress) :)
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  • By yellamo
    March 09, 2010
    08:01 PM

    Feminist Hour - Toshirô Mifune
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  • By Josh Locklair
    March 09, 2010
    08:03 PM

    DODES KA-DEN: NAKED SED OD RASHOMON= ASH MORON IKIRU = R U IKI
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  • By WEST ANTHONY
    March 09, 2010
    08:07 PM

    THE BAD SLEEP WELL = BLEW LETHAL SPEED
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  • By VMS
    March 09, 2010
    08:16 PM

    Throne of Blood = BOLDER FONT, OOH! (a future Blu-Ray cover?)
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  • By Julio P.
    March 09, 2010
    08:17 PM

    Seven Samurai = I Serve a Man, Us
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  • By Andrew
    March 09, 2010
    08:18 PM

    Pewter Held Host [The Lower Depths]
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  • By James Bacon
    March 09, 2010
    08:19 PM

    Shira's got Sauna = Sanshiro Sugata
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  • By Alexandre Rousseau
    March 09, 2010
    08:28 PM

    ALEXANDRE ROUSSEAU KAGEMUSHA= Make A Gush
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  • By Buddy Hedrick
    March 09, 2010
    08:32 PM

    Drunken Angel - Gun And Kernel or with its Japanese name: Yoidore tenshi - Hide Orient Soy
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  • By Jim Tudor
    March 09, 2010
    08:33 PM

    MARTIN SCORSESE = ACES C TRIM ROSES
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  • By Scott Daggan
    March 09, 2010
    08:35 PM

    Throne of Blood = hotbed for loon
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  • By Ross Reeder
    March 09, 2010
    08:40 PM

    Seven Samurai Erase Vain Sum
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  • By Rob Hunt
    March 09, 2010
    08:48 PM

    Toshiro Mifune = Hirsute If Mono Is he bearded in all the mono films?
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  • By Jamie Tyroler
    March 09, 2010
    08:59 PM

    Rashomon = O, mon rash! Takashi Shimura = Akiru a shit mash (Akiru is Japanese for dislike, detest)
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  • By Andrea Louise
    March 09, 2010
    09:00 PM

    Red Beard > debarred
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  • By Joe Wakeman
    March 09, 2010
    09:11 PM

    Rashomon=Moon Rash (opposite of a sunburn)
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  • By Michael D
    March 09, 2010
    09:17 PM

    Seven Samurai = Save as me ruin
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  • By Nikki Dawn
    March 09, 2010
    09:18 PM

    Threshed, we plot. A fitting anagram for my favorite: His remake of Gorky's The Lower Depths.
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  • By dan kinem
    March 09, 2010
    09:27 PM

    Throne of Blood - Blond Hero Foot Reminds me of Kiddo in Kill Bill and the trying to move her foot scene.
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  • By Peter Han
    March 09, 2010
    09:30 PM

    Seven Samurai A Seamen Virus
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  • By Sean Carter
    March 09, 2010
    09:42 PM

    Takashi Shimura : samurai hash kit
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  • By FRANCEL DIAZ LEÑERO
    March 09, 2010
    09:48 PM

    RHAPSODY IN AUGUST YOGURT PANDA SUSHI (Yum!)
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  • By Joe Wakeman
    March 09, 2010
    09:57 PM

    Rashomon=Moon Rash (opposite of a sunburn)
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  • By Mike Scholtz
    March 09, 2010
    10:04 PM

    THE HIDDEN FORTRESS Sets forth hindered
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  • By Tony P
    March 09, 2010
    10:15 PM

    The Hidden Fortress If I vine Earl
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  • By John Forse
    March 09, 2010
    10:21 PM

    One Wonderful Sunday -- You Newfoundlanders
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  • By Travis Westmore
    March 09, 2010
    10:22 PM

    Throne Of Blood - Noble Hoof Trod
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  • By Dylan Cassidy
    March 09, 2010
    10:29 PM

    One Wonderful Sunday Useful nerd won no day
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  • By sondra
    March 09, 2010
    10:42 PM

    Yojimbo = o boy Jim
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  • By sondra
    March 09, 2010
    10:47 PM

    Sanjuro = sour Jan
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  • By Brandon Goco
    March 09, 2010
    10:57 PM

    The Hidden Fortress: "Defend Hero's Thirst"
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  • By Todd LaPlace
    March 09, 2010
    10:58 PM

    Yojimbo = Mob, I Joy
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  • By Mark Gowdy
    March 09, 2010
    11:03 PM

    Takashi Shimura = It has haiku arms
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  • By Mark Gowdy
    March 09, 2010
    11:06 PM

    Drunken Angel = Need rank lung
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  • By Carlos
    March 09, 2010
    11:06 PM

    To Live = Violet I Live in Fear = Airline Five Seven Samurai = A Seamen Virus
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  • By LU
    March 09, 2010
    11:08 PM

    Throne of Blood = Boner Foothold or Robot Flood Hen
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  • By Andy Johnson
    March 09, 2010
    11:10 PM

    Takashi Shimura = Ham Sitar Haikus
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  • By JamesChow
    March 09, 2010
    11:19 PM

    Stray Dogs = Stray God (as in a god that doesn't function in the world of the film)
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  • By Eigamushi
    March 09, 2010
    11:20 PM

    No regrets for our Youth u forgotten horror yes u
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  • By Brad
    March 09, 2010
    11:22 PM

    Rank Need Lung (this seemed appropriate somehow :) ) Drunken Angel
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  • By Charles Ott
    March 09, 2010
    11:28 PM

    I took Kanji Watanabe and turned it into "A bank in Tenja" Tenja, Croatia that is!
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  • By Billy Ritchie
    March 09, 2010
    11:39 PM

    Yojimbo - I mob joy or, Dreams - Sad R.E.M.
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  • By Robert W.
    March 10, 2010
    12:48 AM

    Sanjuro "Or Janus"
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  • By Josh G.
    March 10, 2010
    12:49 AM

    HIGH AND LOW Howl Ghandi
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  • By Ted House
    March 10, 2010
    01:11 AM

    "No Regrets For Our Youth" = Tour Your Green Forts
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  • By Justin Morgan
    March 10, 2010
    01:23 AM

    Shichinin No Samurai A Musician, His Horn
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  • By Rob
    March 10, 2010
    01:41 AM

    "The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail" Don't Thee Regret, I Shalt Eat Him Now.
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  • By Kevin Longrie
    March 10, 2010
    01:52 AM

    The Hidden Fortress = This Short Defender
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  • By najirah
    March 10, 2010
    02:06 AM

    TOSHIRO MIFUNE (from Yojimbo) M.O.: To Hire Is Fun or M.O.: Is Fun To Hire SEVEN SAMURAI Use Vain Mares or Use Naive Arms
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  • By Alexandra E.
    March 10, 2010
    02:32 AM

    THE BAD SLEEP WELL Table Spewed Hell
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  • By Steven G.
    March 10, 2010
    02:47 AM

    The Hidden Fortress He Reddens This Fort
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  • By Patrick L.
    March 10, 2010
    03:32 AM

    SEVEN SAMOURAI Seamen Saviour
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  • By ajs
    March 10, 2010
    04:00 AM

    the hidden fortress : odd serfs hit her net
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  • By Mike
    March 10, 2010
    04:40 AM

    THE HIDDEN FORTRESS----DETHRONED HER FISTS
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  • By Benjamin B
    March 10, 2010
    05:31 AM

    Rhapsody in August = Grandpa Youth Is Us
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    March 10, 2010
    05:37 AM

    Stray Dog: Gray Dots
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  • By Robert Nishimura
    March 10, 2010
    08:02 AM

    The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail = I won't hate her methadone glitters
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    March 10, 2010
    09:38 AM

    Yo Jimbo! :)
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  • By Jeremy Harmon
    March 10, 2010
    10:32 AM

    In text form: R U naked, Lange? Drunken Angel
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    March 10, 2010
    10:41 AM

    Edit (one too many 'a's in the last submission) In text form: R U naked, Glenn? Drunken Angel
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  • By Dan Wotherspoon
    March 10, 2010
    10:48 AM

    Tsubaki Sanjuro = Janus Art, Sub, I OK.
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  • By Robert Pirkola
    March 10, 2010
    11:07 AM

    Dodes'ka-den = sad odd keen
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  • By Dustin
    March 10, 2010
    11:22 AM

    Ran = NRA, which we all know stands for the National Revolt Association.
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  • By BRENT SALLAY
    March 10, 2010
    11:29 AM

    TOSHIRO MIFUNE = IRON SUMO THIEF
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  • By NAJIRAH
    March 10, 2010
    12:13 PM

    TOSHIRO MIFUNE (from Yojimbo) I'm So Fun To Hire or So, I'm Fun To Hire IKIRU I Irk U
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  • By anand
    March 10, 2010
    12:42 PM

    THRONE OF BLOOD = Lo, both done for. TOSHIRO MIFUNE = Oh, misfortune! (hoping the "i" can be used as an exclamation point)
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  • By Thom S.
    March 10, 2010
    12:52 PM

    Takashi Shimura = Samurai has kith.
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  • By GORDOLF
    March 10, 2010
    01:03 PM

    I LIVE IN FEAR of AIRLINE FIVE
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  • By Seth Just
    March 10, 2010
    01:17 PM

    Toshiro Mifune - HEROISM IF UNTO perfect.
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  • By Eugene Golbin
    March 10, 2010
    01:51 PM

    The Bad Sleep Well = We led belle paths.
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  • By Nikki Dawn
    March 10, 2010
    02:26 PM

    Averse Animus = Seven Samurai
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  • By Scott Stewart
    March 10, 2010
    02:42 PM

    Toshiro Mifune= "Heroism Of Unit" This recalls his role in "Seven Samurai"
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  • By Dan Shank
    March 10, 2010
    02:58 PM

    No Regrets for Our Youth - Sorry, Hero. Fortune: Gout.
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    March 10, 2010
    03:00 PM

    The Idiot = I hid tote
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  • By joshua jordon
    March 10, 2010
    03:23 PM

    Dreams = Ms Read
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  • By Michael
    March 10, 2010
    03:27 PM

    SANSHIRO SUGATA = AUTHORS IN SAGAS
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  • By aS
    March 10, 2010
    03:57 PM

    yard togs
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  • By Marshall Muse
    March 10, 2010
    04:54 PM

    I Live In Fear --> I Fare In Evil muahahahah!
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  • By Kevin Powers
    March 10, 2010
    05:01 PM

    Tho I diet... menu: woks aura if dry goats (tho diet i - the idiot, dry goats - Stray Dog, menu if - mifune, woks aura - kurosawa)
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  • By Ricky Bleu
    March 10, 2010
    05:27 PM

    Sanjuro Tsubaki Urbana is just OK Just Rub in Osaka Burt Oak is Janus
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  • By JHW
    March 10, 2010
    07:11 PM

    To Live (translation of Ikiru) = I Love it Toshiro Mifune = Noisome if Hurt
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  • By JHW
    March 10, 2010
    09:23 PM

    Oops! A typo on my first entry, sorry! Here is the correct version: To Live (translation of Ikiru) = Love it
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    March 10, 2010
    09:45 PM

    Rhapsody in August = A Daring Youths Ups
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