Too much symbolism and shots of the swamp. I've seen two Kurosawa noir films thus far (this and STRAY DOG) and while neither was horrible, I just personally didn't care for them. Maybe it's due to my apathy towards the genre in general but I'll take a Kurosawa samurai flick over a Kurosawa noir flick any day of the week.
I dunno, I'm not a film noir whore, but I loved STRAY DOG.
Just because a movie aint pimped to death as a masterpiece, doesn't mean its not a great movie on its own.
God forbid if you can stand any Scorsese movie outside of the mob.
