Yes, Love and Honour is the third film after Twilight Samurai, which is considerably superior to it. Whilst not necessarily meaning old-fashioned as an insult, there really isn’t that much to Love And Honour except the simple pleasure of seeing a pretty basic story told well. But it does belabour many of its points and offers very little new in the way of surprises. It also has a coda which goes on for ever which everyone in the cinema had guessed and was battered into submission by.

I quite liked “The Twilight Samurai” which I take it is another segment of the trilogy. (Is there an increasing-levels-of-darkness motif going on?) Unfortunately I watched that in the same week as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which was similar but ultimately I thought a considerably greater movie, so it suffered by comparison. You describe Love & Honour as “sedate and old fashioned”, so I’m anticipating more of the same really, very tasteful stuff likely to sweep the Japanese Oscars-equivalent, but not likely to change anyone’s life?

You did well to remember that little piece – I just reread it and I barely remember it.