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Landloper
If you liked Takashi's remake Neil, you might like the original by Masaki Kobayashi 'Harakiri' [1962]. If that suits have a look at his 'Samurai Rebellion' [1967]. Both films are cinematic adaptations of works by Yasuhiko Takiguchi. I greatly admire Kobayashi's work, and particularly his imperative that we have a moral duty to resist injustice while at the same time being fully aware that such resistance is ultimately futile. See also Kobayashi's epic triptych 'The Human Condition' [1959-1961], based in part on pacifist and socialist Kobayashi's own experience in the Imperial Japanese Army during WW2.