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47 Ronin (2013)

★ 6.2 · 4,118 ratings on TMDB

For courage. For loyalty. For honor.

47 Ronin poster★ 6.2

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

DirectorCarl Rinsch
CastHiroshi Sogabe, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jin Akanishi, Keanu Reeves, Ko Shibasaki, Masayoshi Haneda
GenresAction, Drama, Fantasy
The emergence reading

In 47 Ronin, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “mythic feudal Japan”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, honor, magic, authority, tradition.

↷ animalsUSprejudicehonormagicauthoritytradition
Also inConsciousness hiding in animalsFilms about prejudiceFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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