4K Restoration of Seven Samurai Coming to Theaters

Deadline ^ | June 6, 2024 | Zac Ntim

[sphinx]

After a debut screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Toho Company’s 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa‘s seminal epic Seven Samurai is hitting the U.S. for a theatrical release through Janus Films. The trailer is in the linked article.

Janus will open the restoration on Friday, July 5 in New York at Film Forum after which a Los Angeles premiere will take place at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre on Sunday, July 7. The film will open wide on Friday, July 12 in Los Angeles at Laemmle Royal.

[ph_balanced]

I have not watched it yet but it appears that Dersu Uzala is available for free streaming at divicast.com

https://www.divicast.com/watch-movie/watch-dersu-uzala-1975-online-free-11047.5358691

[P.O.E.]

First Kurosawa film I saw was “Ikiru” in a Japanese culture class I was taking for business trips back in the 80s.

The professor helpfully explained much of the movie’s subtleties to us.

For example, the protagonist is given a seat at dinner far away from the boss - not a word spoken about it. The implication was he was out of favor because of his unusual request to build a children’s playground on a vacant lot, instead of going along with the business plan.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

“Like snickers, guaranteed to satisfy
Like Kurosawa I make mad films
Okay, I don’t make films
But if I did, they’d have a samurai”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_q9KPczAg

[higgmeister]

I especially liked seeing the great Toshiro Mifune portraying the plucky comic relief.   He was the ultimate leading man in Rashomon (1950), The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Yojimbo and many other films.   When he portrayed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the movie Midway, they dubbed his voice with Paul Frees, which was a crime against humanity.   They made him sound like the talking rings in the Time Machine.

[higgmeister]

Thanks for the ping.

[Big Red Badger]

“Seemed like the Right thing to Do
...
At the Time.”
.
McQueen

[simpson96]

Thanks for the ping. Would be worth seeing on a big screen.

[unlearner]

Considered by many to be the greatest film ever made.

Certainly in the running.

[Borges]

Lucas got Yoda from it