Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Kurosawa and Mifune's Final Masterpiece

This movie is a real departure for the director, Akira Kurosawa, in that it blends his humanistic inspirational-type movies, like "Ikiru" with a bit of action and drama "Yojimbo, Sanjuro." The majority of the movie follows a young and arrogant doctor forced to work in a rural and poor region of Japan under a domineering senior doctor. Naturally, everybody learns a lesson about life and both the doctors and patients are seen in their human weakness and grandeour. Midway through the movie, out of nowhere, one of the best action sequences in movie history occurs just before the intermission. It is shocking because it is such a departure from the tone and is also so brief, confusing, and brutal. Toshiro Mifune and Kurosawa never worked together again after this movie and the director's work changed radically. Still good, but I'll always prefer the b&w epics the two of them made together.