"Seven Samurai" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Lord Dalek]

Release Date: April 26, 1954
Studio: Toho/Kurosawa Pro.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Yukiko Shimazaki, Haruko Toyama

Plot Summary: In the Sixteenth Century, in Japan, a poor village is frequently looted by armed bandits losing their crop of rice. Their patriarch Grandfather advises the villagers to hire a Ronin to defend their village. Four farmers head to town to seek out their possible protectors, but they just can offer three meals of rice per day and lodging for the samurai. They succeed in hiring the warming-hearted veteran Kambei Shimada that advises that they need six other samurai to protect their lands. Kambei recruits the necessary five samurai and the brave jester Kikuchiyo and move to the village. After a feared reception, Kambei plots a defense strategy and the samurai start training the farmers how to defend their lands and families for the battle that approaches.

COMMENTS?

LD Talkback #143

Another one I've been meaning to do for years. This is about as close to a perfect film as you can get.

[Avaitor]

Best fucking movie ever made.

Not hyperbole.

[Spark Of Spirit]

You have no idea how hard it is to watch Kurosawa movies here. Nobody has them ANYWHERE.

I still have yet to see this, even though I want to. 

[Avaitor]

Does Criterion hate you over there or something?

[Avaitor]

I feel like indulging you guys in another trailer.

You in the mood to watch this now?

[Lord Dalek]

It's annoying that the best trailer for Seven Samurai they apparently lost the sound for.

Also: better.

[talonmalon333]

Very good movie. It doesn't feel nearly as long as it actually is.