a premise that has since become movie folklore—revisiting Seven Samurai reveals it to be a much simpler and less vainglorious film than its stature might suggest. It most certainly earns its ...

“Seven Samurai,” hopeful and tragic at once, is less about a battle of good vs. evil than it is a timeless soldier truth. The samurai don't, as the villagers do, return to normal lif ...

Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954), the tale of a motley band of stereotype-busting 16th-century samurai hired to protect villagers from bandits, is frequently mentioned as ...