Just that quick, the ACC has gone from "top o' the world, Ma" to 66% suxor. And my last surviving bracket is pretty much blown. At least now I can root for Arizona over Illinois without conflict (UA basketball fandom is one of the few things that stuck with me from living in Tucson for a year).
Meanwhile, in the realm of Japanese swordplay mayhem, I watched Zatoichi and the Chess Expert and Zatoichi's Vengeance. Both quite good. I think I preferred ...Chess Expert slightly. The plot's hard to follow and requires working knowledge of the earlier movies in the series. Thus appealing to the geeky completist in me. It makes good sparing use of the obligatory cute kid. Excellent set piece fights. Interesting setting. And the ending is just the standard "I'm a loner, Dotty... a rebel" formula with Zatoichi walking into the sunset, alone. ...Vengeance ends so downbeat it's almost French. It does have a more straightforward story (Zatoichi cleans out town full of bad guys) and much higher body count. Plus a nice take on the candle on the sword trick. These two are 15th and 16th in the series, I think. Probably not the best place to start but worth seeing. Even if you're not a geeky completist