Few movies have been more influential than ... are inconceivable without Kurosawa's example. I first saw the full version of "Seven Samurai" at the peak of its critical esteem, when it placed ...

Kurosawa Akira's Shichinin no Samurai—better known to English ... (The Magnificent Seven, its sequel, and its reboot), several Bollywood classics (Sholay and the Indian movies that inspired ...

Read full article ... Videos For many of its admirers, “Seven Samurai” has likewise been a kind of pursuit. It’s not that Kurosawa’s movie is so elusive — it’s a fairly straightforward ...

For its 70th anniversary, Akira Kurosawa's classic film "Seven Samurai" is getting a touch-up and a victory lap. A 4K restoration of the 1954 film was shown last month at the Cannes Film Festival ...

The scene in the river with the farm burning in the back ground and the impetuous young samurai ... movies are just some of the films opening this weekend. Click to check out the full list and ...

There may not be a single movie more influential than Seven Samurai, and for good reason. Akira Kurosawa’s epic tale of a group of warriors hired by a village to protect them from bandits is so ...

We’ll go with seven picks ... The movie not only plays with genre conventions — focusing on a woman protagonist on a quest for vengeance, even if she is not really a samurai — but it ...

Listen, nobody’s saying that any of the Seven Samurai didn’t pull their weight, but in terms of leaving an impact on the audience, Shichirōji comes dead last. The only samurai with any pre ...

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For many of its admirers, “Seven Samurai” has likewise been a kind of pursuit. It’s not that Kurosawa’s movie is so elusive — it’s a fairly straightforward tale that states its meaning ...