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beamish14 wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2026 1:48 am John Irvin, director of the Alec Guinness-starring Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,Turtle Diary and Ghost Story (1981)

The Dogs Of War holds up well. Saw it again recently. Underrated.

Keiko Kishi -- she was in The Makioka Sisters, Early Spring, and Kobayashi's The Inheritance but is maybe best known as the snow maiden in Kwaidan. (And I just learned from BlueSky she was the mother-in-law of the Dirty Three's Warren Ellis.)