Teacher: In this task, you are given product reviews about dvds. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive(the reviewer is satisfied) or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative(the reviewer is not satisfied).
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
My Kids Love It . My 2 & 3 year old love this movie. They love to dance to the music. Garfield is so entertaining. This was a great buy.
Solution: POS
Reason: The overall sentiment of the review is positive as the reviewer refers to the dvd with positive expressions such as 'love it', 'entertaining', 'great' etc. Hence, the label is 'POS'.

Now, solve this instance: Okay . I agree with David Thomson when he says few audiences in the West would be content to view an American epic composed solely of battles and their contexts. Kurosawa was a keen businessman and his reputation in the West was entrenched with "Kagemusha" and "Ran", he knew what (American) audiences think of as heroic and mystical about "historical" Japan: Kurosawa's art takes a great deal on its impetus from what Americans (or Westerners) imagine about Japan. He was not popular in Japan (where they thought his stuff was particularly hokey and outmoded, hence the suicide attempt). I am not saying that the work is rubbish - there is no "ugly" shot in either "Ran" or "Kag" - merely that there are more "authentically Japanese" films out there to choose from.
Student:
NEG