[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!

[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.

[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.

[BenLurkin]

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

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Now look what you’ve started! LOL!

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

[blueunicorn6]

I saw the American musical version,

West Side Samurai

[decal]

Kyuzo was always my favorite of the Seven.

And note the difference between Kambei and Katsushiro while this is going on - Kambei knows what the result will be while the kid has no clue.

[Retain Mike]

Thanks. My copy is in a storage unit.

[dsc]

Rashomon is nothing to sneeze at.

[Oatka]

My favorite scene, one that I have watched at least a dozen times over the years. I marveled at the skilled swordsman Kyuzo, played by Seiji Miyaguchi, who appeared to be born with a sword in his hand. The stylized combat was pure poetry. Later on, you see him practicin, in the rain, while the others take shelter. A professional to the core.

The director made an ironic point in the final battle scene, when Kyuzo, at the top of his profession, is shot and killed by a simple peasant using a matchlock musket. (Damn technology)

I was dumbfounded when he was interviewed some years later and said he had never even touched a sword before this picture and had to take lessons. He was an apt student.

[mrsmith]

https://archive.org/details/seven-samurai
It’s there!

“The Hidden Fortress” is better IMHO.
https://archive.org/details/the-hidden-fortress

Only sub-titled movie I’ve watched to the end.

[PUGACHEV]

I believe the Seven Samurai as one of the five best movies of all time. Another less well known Kurosawa film staring Mifuni and Shimura belongs on that list as well. Stray Dog takes place in an oppressive heat wave in Tokyo in the year after the war ends. The heat is a metaphor for the dislocation at every strata of Japanese society during the occupation, and Mifuni and Shimura are an odd couple of paired police detectives searching for a serial killer. This film is the first of its genre, and the inspiration for all of the countless buddy cop movies made ever since.

[Retain Mike]

The choice of films to the right are great.