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The Seven Samurai
1954 | 208 minutes | Rated NR
Akira Kurosawa's best film is also his most Americanized, drawing on classical Hollywood conventions of genre (the western), characterization (ritual gestures used to distinguish the individuals within a group), and visual style (the horizon lines and exaggerated perspectives of John Ford). Of course, this 1954 film also returned something of what it borrowed, by laying the groundwork for the “professional” western (Rio Bravo, etc) that dominated the genre in the 50s and 60s. Kurosawa's film is a model of long-form construction, ably fitting its asides and anecdotes into a powerful suspense structure that endures for all of the film's 208 minutes. The climax—the battle in the rain and its ambiguous aftermath—is Kurosawa's greatest moment, the only passage in his work worthy of comparison with Mizoguchi. In Japanese with subtitles.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni
Producer: Sojiro Motoki
Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Kunihori Kodo, Kamatari Fujiwara and Yoshio Tsuchiya
Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni
Producer: Sojiro Motoki
Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Kunihori Kodo, Kamatari Fujiwara and Yoshio Tsuchiya
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