The Unbearable Lightness of the Thirty-Year Old Mulberry Field
Our first sight of him, he steps into the frame with his back to the camera, the explosive Masaru Sato score already telling us this figure is a force of nature. He scratches his head and swaggers with that world-weary gait in no particular direction until the opening credits finish. The score then momentarily shifts in tone, from intensity to a kind of cheerful lightness. The masterless samurai, portrayed by the venerable Toshiro Mifune, has come to a pause in his meditative stroll to pick up a stick from off the ground. He tosses it in the air and when it lands, he proceeds to walk in the direction it points. He shrugs his shoulders and introspectively squints his eyes and immediately there’s a resonance. view source