“Seven Samurai” is considered one of the best films ever made. The Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk is screening it this weekend to mark its 70th anniversary.

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Meticulous production Before Seven Samurai, Kurosawa had risen to international prominence through his film Rashomon (羅生門) (1950), winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film ...

The Seven Samurai instruct that greed and self-interest are useless in a fight, while altruism and collaboration are essential. At the start of the movie, the farmers squabble and turn on each other.

Seven Samurai does dispatch of Gorōbei fairly abruptly, and off-screen, too, but that speaks to the nature of conflict itself. Sometimes, death isn't cinematic.

Aside from its different setting, one of the most important elements of The Magnificent Seven that isn't borrowed from Seven Samurai is its score, which was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

“Seven Samurai” is consistently ranked among the best films of all time and in the top five of international films from countries other than the U.S. and Great Britain.

The deaths in Seven Samurai always hold significance and consequence, whether the fallen are heroes or villains. Likewise, as opposed to modern action films, which rely on frenetic and chaotic editing ...