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ok, so i watched the classic japanese film with my middle child before a late supper......the others were out....at a pre-meeting for 4-h camp.......and though i had heard little about this film...i did seem to know ahead that it was loosely based on the shakeperean play king lear.......and this adaptation may be more bloodly than the play.....or at least when filmed in feudal japan with swords.......some great lines........when lord hidetora exclaims that he is lost...the fool aka kyoami retorts....such is the human condition.......Akira Kurosawa was the director, producer, screenplay adapter........he made the film at age 78......i was chilled by the performance of lady kaede, whose desire fro revenge led her to basically set every body in this family against everybody else...resulting in utter destruction.....i had forgotten, or else i never actually knew...just how tragic was the tale of king lear............and when the movie finally ended in japanese credits that couldn't be read.......we put in the tour tape....and stayed up til midnight watching lance really attack the mountain....and take back control of the tour......he was a machine going up those switch backs.......and he quite obviously let the non-threat rider in the final sprint win the stage.....lance would wear the yellow jersey regardless....and lance is the kind of guy who doesn't win a stage just to get the trophy.....he has his eyes on the bigger prize.......and so it came to be that with the japanese cult film....and the tour.....i completely forgot the baseball allstar game.....for the record....the al won......i hope to watch the highlights on mlb.com.......who says my life lacks interest?..............