The Seven Samurai is a daunting movie to write about. It deserves its classic status and anyone who watches it will be rewarded through repeated viewings. I myself thought the movie was OK after my first viewing but had my eyes opened when I watched...
- 16.October.2009
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- by: Rtaylor32
- Rtaylor32 rated this movie
 10/10Must See
The Seven Samurai is a daunting movie to write about. It deserves its classic status and anyone who watches it will be rewarded through repeated viewings. I myself thought the movie was OK after my first viewing but had my eyes opened when I watched the film with the Criterion Collection commentary track.
The film is deceptively simple a farming village decide to hire samurai to protect them from raiding bandits. The seven samurai spend the last half of the movie fighting the bandits. It seems simple but Kurosawa demonstrates his cinematic prowess on every scene. He controls every aspect of his film - nothing falls outside his grasp. Not the sun, not the winds, not the rain. The director uses everything at his disposal to serve the themes of the film.
Unlike many films of this type that shows battle as exercise of complex choreography; the fighting in the Seven Samurai is brutal not ballet. It is realistic and all the more human and real.
- 16.October.2009
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- by: Rtaylor32
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a kurosawa movie with toshiro mifune in it - could it be any less than great?
One of the greatest directors of all times - Kurosawa, and one of the greatest actors ever - Toshiro Mifune combine in this action samurai epic. Great fighting scenes, amazing acting, universal subjects such as morality and redemption, some consider...
- 11.September.2008
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- by: fletcher.munson
- fletcher.munson rated this movie7/10Good
a kurosawa movie with toshiro mifune in it - could it be any less than great?
One of the greatest directors of all times - Kurosawa, and one of the greatest actors ever - Toshiro Mifune combine in this action samurai epic. Great fighting scenes, amazing acting, universal subjects such as morality and redemption, some consider it to be the best Kurosawa movie ever. it's a classic and a masterpiece. If you love cinema you have to see it, it's more than three hours long but it's worth the watch.
- 11.September.2008
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- by: fletcher.munson
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It's a must-see
Adventure classic and a true masterpiece. wonderful directing work combining a powerful human drama and a lot of action. The great actor Toshiro Mifune, who plays a samurai, gives the film a lot of life and charm. strongly recommended.
- 07.September.2008
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- by: Anita.Hoffman
- Anita.Hoffman rated this movie9/10Amazing
It's a must-see
Adventure classic and a true masterpiece. wonderful directing work combining a powerful human drama and a lot of action. The great actor Toshiro Mifune, who plays a samurai, gives the film a lot of life and charm. strongly recommended.
- 07.September.2008
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- by: Anita.Hoffman
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