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Second Time AroundBy Tod BoothPublished on August 26, 1998Scarface-san: Two More by Tai Kato Kato's 1963 The Sanada Warriors, playing Thursday, may be his nuttiest film. In one of his typically spectacular openings, a group of children picking over the remains of a vast samurai battle meet Sasuke, a strange boy with psychokinetic powers and glowing blue eyes, these caused by a meteor crash when he was born. Following this makeshift family into adulthood, Kato's film slaps us with such wacky anachronisms as an Elvis-esque, guitar-playing wandering minstrel and cops directing battleground traffic. For those who need to attach larger meanings to something that's already vastly entertaining, The Sanada Warriors also happens to be a political allegory of the student uprisings of the time. -- Tod Booth The Sanada Warriors screens Thursday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m. A Man's Face Shows His Personal History screens Saturday, Aug. 29, at 8:50 p.m. (with Red Peony Gambles Her Life at 7 p.m.). Both screenings are at the Pacific Film Archive, 2625 Durant (at College) in Berkeley. Tickets are $6, $1.50 more for the second film. Call (510) 642-1124.
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