this is not quite on-topic but tangentially related:
i remember coming across a discussion on this forum about a non-kurosawa japanese film set during a plague in feudal times. the protagonists are trying to enter a castle but are rebuffed, iirc.
does anyone recall the title of such a film? i tried googling, but you can imagine what search results i got when “japanese film” + “plague” + “castle” or “fortress” are the inputs: howl’s moving castle, castle in the sky, contagion (soderbergh must be secretly japanese), etc.
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