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TOKYO \u2013 Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the Japanese director known as \u201cthe master of horror,\u201d was a bit nervous about how viewers might react to his first samurai film<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He needn\u2019t have worried.<\/p>\n

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