The 70th Anniversary Restoration Of SEVEN SAMURAI

Last night I had the great privilege of seeing the 70th anniversary restoration of Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI on the big screen, at the Browning Cinema on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, along with my good friend Paul Lyzun. Seeing SEVEN SAMURAI under any circumstances is a treat, bu... Read full article

Cinemallennials: Seven Samurai (1954)

Cinemallennials: Seven Samurai (1954) Welcome to the first Cinemallennials monthly column for Classic Movie Hub! For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cinemallennials, it is a bi-weekly podcast in which I, and another millennial, watch a classic film that we’ve never seen before, and dis... Read full article

Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)

Seven Samurai is about a farming village, under imminent threat of bandits raiding and stealing their crop–and possibly doing much worse–who decides to hire samurai to defend them. They send four men–Fujiwara Kamatari, Kosugi Yoshio, Tsuchiya Yoshio, and Hidari Bokuzen–to town to hire the sa... Read full article

Seven Samurai (1954)

Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) Directed by Akira Kurosawa Written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni 1954/USA Toho Company Repeat viewing/My DVD collection #278 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Yes, there is a 3/12-hour film in which not one minute is wasted. ... Read full article

Classics Revisited: Seven Samurai

(1954) Directed by Akira Kurosawa; Written by: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni; Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Isao Kimura and Keiko Tsushima; Available on Blu-ray and DVD. Rating: ***** “To tell you the truth, I can only make films that I care abou... Read full article