Samurai Rebellion (1967)
A very dry movie in my opinion. While tragic its impact felt a bit diluted in the minimalistic manner it was portrayed. While I loved Kobayashi's movies a few years ago apparently my tastes evolved through the consumption of enormous quantities of Japanese narratives. Now what once felt cool and exotic Japanese film, now feels like an outdated work that does not resonate in our own times (I think I should nominate a modern Japanese film like Kamikaze Girls (2004) to show how Japanese cultural aesthetics have evolved between the 60's and the 2000's.
Still maybe the fact that I watched this while being sick and with a headache negatively influenced my opinion of it. Its acting and directing are very good and the movie was carefully filmed and edited: I do not find anything wrong about it. However, while it's a very polished movie its drama didn't resonate with me, so that I did not care at all for the characters, although I was a bit moved in the end.