between drug-induced comas, i watched sanjûrô and big trouble in little china. i think my love of kurosawa films has been covered elsewhere. i had actually seen sanjûrô before, so i'm not sure how it ended up in my netflix queue again. i liked the central conceit of big trouble in little china (the flip-flop of the hero and sidekick roles), but the movie is showing its age, and really doesn't do anything to rise beyond well-executed b-movie.