Minoru Chiaki

Akira Kurosawa?s ?Hidden Fortress? (1958) ? a duel episode between two generals. Only one of the generals is fighting to kill ? the other one is using the fight not in order to kill or wound or humiliate the opponent but to cure him from the militancy complex (from believing that combat is a way to settle human problems). The duel is the biggest episode in ?Hidden Fortress? because Kurosawa is staging the fight with a lot of psychological information about what fighters feel and think during the fight. Kurosawa transforms the psychology of the fighter we see analyzed inside the psychology of the fight into the psychology of a peaceful conflict negotiation, and elaborates a concept how to use military force for anti-war purposes. See the article ?Akira Kurosawa?s Instructions to Heads of States? and the analysis of screen shots from ?Hidden Fortress? (posted on Sept. 5, 2009) at: http://www.actingoutpolitics.com/ By Victor