RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. Too many immortal performances to even summarize but nearly all of them are sharpened to an edge you can shave with. One of the tightest coiled springs in the history of movies.

A million laughs
A million tears
#gawrt

look back's approach to time, in its flatly default and almost-cloying "scene transition, years are passing; time for a montage! and with fortissimo!" made me think of the OP/ado music video ishitani did, which handled some similar themes, but in a much more delicate, adept way