Dear self: read these product descriptions more closely.
Sooo...Kenneth Branagh's 2006 adaptation of As You Like It is about peaceful, intellectual white Europeans in 19th century Japan, learning all about the exotic natives and their exotic culture. *Summary of opening text.*
In the opening scene, the peaceful white people are having a solemn party when scary, violent samurai attack, beat up an old dude (we get two clips of this, to make sure we don't miss the scary samurai beating up a helpless old man), and throw them out to wander the cold forest like the poor, abused, helpless souls they are.
Sigh.
ETA: But then I turned on Life, and the ep. has Christina Hendricks and Victoria Pratt, so it wasn't a total Netflix Failure day.
In the opening scene, the peaceful white people are having a solemn party when scary, violent samurai attack, beat up an old dude (we get two clips of this, to make sure we don't miss the scary samurai beating up a helpless old man), and throw them out to wander the cold forest like the poor, abused, helpless souls they are.
Sigh.
ETA: But then I turned on Life, and the ep. has Christina Hendricks and Victoria Pratt, so it wasn't a total Netflix Failure day.