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If you are Japanese, this would be the funniest movie you had ever seen. But like so much of the best Japanese humor, it simply doesn't translate to the Western culture. "How much do you pay the monk?" That dialog was so funny, everyone was talking about it for months. Judging from the responses here however, I suppose most foreigners don't get it. Could be a good litmus test if you want to see how proficient you are in your knowledge of Japanese culture.

Any movie buff knows that later moviemakers borrow scenes, characters or entire plots from earlier great works. Many people can recognize short parts of new movies that are identical to parts from other movies. This practice is so commonplace that in some cases you can see a "classic" movie for the first time and feel that you have seen something similar many times before.@ Add to this the fact that older movies tend to be slower paced than the newer films, and that they have unimpressive visual effects by today's standards, and you are likely to get disappointment from younger viewers. This movie *was* great. Unfortunately, you would have to exercise your imagination to understand just how great this film once was. Today, letfs just call it entertaining.