The samurai are often admired for the idea that they all adhered to honorable morals and virtues, yet in reality, the culture of the samurai was often one of brutality, cruelty, and oppression.
Director Kore-eda Hirokazu is back with his first Japanese-language film in five years with Monster, written by Sakamoto Yuji - a rumination on our limited perception of the lives of others. It s also a movie that seems to channel a bit of Kurosawa Akira s Rashomon.