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Odd how much my idea of what makes an acceptable entry has changed in the last two years: Here's a bit I cut myself, which I added two years ago. No word on whether the film Kwaidan--or its director--influenced the name given for Keyser Soze's lawyer in The Usual Suspects. ... Similar removals at John Sayles. ^_^ Koyaanis Qatsi 02:58 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

In the reference I don't see anything about Kobayashi refusing to fight. It merely says he refused to become an officer. JC 114.172.214.148 ( talk) 01:10, 24 November 2009 (UTC) reply

The portion of this page /info/en/?search=Masaki_Kobayashi#Provenance is a machine translation from Japanese and doesn't make much sense.