"Seven Samurai", Akira Kurosawa, 1954 - Sparring Scene

Youtube ^ | 1/23/2018 | FilmStruck

[BenLurkin]

Great flick.

Best sequence, imo, is when they are training the villagers.

Each Samurai has a different approach to training and a different emphasis on “skills”.

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YOU are making my day with these posts.

Domo Arigato!

[BrexitBen]

The 1960 classic, The Magnificent Seven, was based on the Seven Samurai.

Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen were great, but neither engaged in a sword duel.

[SaxxonWoods]

Excellent.

[BipolarBob]

Dersu Uzala by Kurosawa is another gem.

[nickcarraway]

I finally saw it in the theater last year. Amazing movie.

[chajin]

The staring before the attack looked just like the staring between Hakuho and Terunofuji before their bout today.

Everyone knows Toshiro Mifune from the Kurosawa "stable," but by far Kurosawa's most versatile actor was Takashi Shimura, who played the "Chris" Yul-Brynner role in Seven Samurai. Unless you watch old postwar Japanese movies as different as Ikiru and Gojira, you would have no idea how good he was.

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I went through a stage when i rented all of Kurosawas movies .

Not only was “The Magnificent Seven” based on his movies, but a lot of the “Spaghetti Westerns” were as well.

Clint Eastwood and and Toshiro Mifune were similar in many ways. :-0

[algore]

Yes, one of the “must watch” movies

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I loved “Odetsu” (spelling?), a romantic ghost story. Not Kurosawa, and a whole different style. “Yojimbo” was great too.

[chrisinoc]

The 1980 low budget movie “Battle Beyond the Stars” was the space age version of the “Seven Samurai”. The planet was called Akir and the natives were called Akira in honor of Akira Kurasawa.

[Michael.SF.]

Yeah, but James Coburn was awesome with a knife!

[BenLurkin]

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

“A Fistful of Dollars” was basically taken right from Yojimbo. “Ran” is basically Kurosawa’s version of King Lear, and is fantastic as well.

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I saw “Ran” in the theater. All the others, unfortunately on the small screen.

[Hot Tabasco]

Domo Arigato!

"Irrigate the dome!" Makes no sense dude.......

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Now look what you’ve started! LOL!

Threads like these are one of the reasons i love FR.

[chajin]

Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen were great, but neither engaged in a sword duel.

That's because they never got into sworded affairs.

P. S. The Magnificent Seven is the only movie whose text became the basis for one of my sermons: "I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything." Exactly where the sermon went is a topic for another time :-)

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LOL.