Excellent article on "The Eighth Samurai" -- Tatsuya Nakadai

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When I was a boy and Abbey Road was still on the New Release racks
at my local record store, one familiar pop culture question my
friends and I would often entertain concerned the potential
existence and probable identity of a "fifth Beatle"â€”a
session-seasoned ghost-star brought in to buoy up Paul's bass
lines, or some funk-for-hire kagemusha, secretly shadow-doubling
keyboard rumbles deep within the mix. Todayâ€”grayer, far less
groovy, and no longer so susceptible to such frivolous and
rhetorical pop-cult idylls as those of yoreâ€”I tend toward weightier
and more serious concerns. The possibility, for example, that
alongside the seven blade runners of Akira Kurosawa's sword-toting
supergroup there might have strode an extra warriorâ€”an "eighth
samurai."

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Topic - Excellent article on "The Eighth Samurai" -- Tatsuya Nakadai - clarkjohnsen 10:02:34 12/01/05 (1)

Re: Excellent article on "The Eighth Samurai" -- Tatsuya Nakadai - TAFKA Steve 14:27:53 12/01/05 (0)

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