If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.
Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.