why are those dudes killing the two poachers with hammer blows to the head?
why didn't those dudes in the back of the truck to for the young guy with the suitcase Full of Money?
what was that scene about 3/4 through the film: it was dark and there about 8 dark figures laying in beds or cots and they all stood up slowly, they were all fully dressed and they all started walking together to leave the room and that was it. what was that about?
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Perhaps you'll bring him/her back to life - just like Yabuike tried to do to second Charisma.
shareAs for the guys killing the poachers with the hammer blows, my interpretation was that Kurosawa probably made a list of how to kill people - hanging, shooting, and of course, hammer blows to the head - and thought the hammer blows would really show the primitive lifestyle of the small town portrayed in the film - and it would add some creepy humour along the way. Just the way they hit the poacher's heads and you hear the lame THUNK sound - it just causes you to reflect on the killings right there. You're thinking 'WHY?' as the hammer goes down again and again. If it was a hanging or a shooting, cinema viewers see that often on the big screen, so these hammer blows are something unique. I think he just did it for fun. The poachers had to die, why not make in memorable?
As for the guys who got out of the beds late at night - I think they're the ones who were hitting the poachers on the head with the hammers - they have hats and boots, and while they're getting out of bed, there's a radio broadcast playing - as if they're listening to the poachers, and woke up to deal with them. I might be wrong, but it's what I got from watching the film a few times.