Watched Shūbun/Scandal (Kurosawa, 1949) with @sforrest this evening. What a great film. *Such* an affirming view of humanity, in spite of our weaknesses and flaws, and such breathtaking cinematography. https://asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/953407.html 

Tangentially, the actress who plays opposite Mifune, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, deserves a movie of her life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Yamaguchi

Born in Japanese-controlled Manchuria, she grew up speaking Mandarin. During the war she made Japanese propaganda films. The war's end found her in Shanghai, where she was apprehended and sentenced to death.

She ended up banished from China instead, and back in Japan did more films, w/e.g. Kurosawa. Later she went to the US, married a Japanese American, and made films in the US. She got divorced, returned to Japan, and became a member of parliament.

She regretted having made propaganda films, and according to Wikipedia, became " one of the first prominent Japanese citizens to acknowledge the history of Japanese brutality during the wartime occupation."