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74 9 (Question to the Director) The film’s subtitles say this is camellia not peach blossoms that appear in the stream to flow from between two rocks at the base of the garden wall from next door Were this the original legend in Chinese where the fisherman traces the petals back to the crevice which is the entrance to paradise the petals would be peach but this is a Japanese movie In the samurai movie maybe battle is met with the fact of paradise or at least the threshold response of how it is entered. These days it’s more some rote unexamined reading than just according to the screenplay: paradise seems instead to trigger the fighting ...

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