Finally have dipped my toe into classic Japanese cinema with picrel. The visuals and the sound were spellbindingly gorgeous, but I found the plot of most of the stories really, really thin. I get that these are folk tales and are necessarily "schematic", but e.g. the first story was 3 sentences worth of story inflated to 40 minutes of footage. It was a fascinating viewing experience regardless, but in terms of story it did feel like treacle at certain junctures. I'm planning on going through the Kurosawa period classics and Onibaba next, any other recs?