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       when I looked
at the film
again

it had
all been remastered

some
small scenes had
been tripped
    cut down the running
time
to Hell with
     the narrative

villain had
     becoms protagonist
protagonist
did nothing

and old ending
charmingly absurd
had made way
for denouement generic

lay a foundation
for sequel

cruel to laugh seeing
them flounder
in that
wet cement

but I did
so anyway
           (no
samurai suicide
for these
producers and
scripwriters whose

sense of
shame so
not of the best