Playing at New York’s Film Forum, the 4K restoration of Japanese master Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai grossed $19,000 across three days, ahead of its expansion in Los Angeles and Boston this ...

To celebrate its 70th anniversary, Akira Kurosawa’s black-and-white epic Seven Samurai is coming ... the farmers go in search of ronin — master-less samurai for hire — who can ward off ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

For its 70th anniversary, Akira Kurosawa's classic film "Seven Samurai" is getting a touch-up and a victory lap. A 4K restoration of the 1954 film was shown last month at the Cannes Film Festival ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still ...

By J. Hoberman Few movies have been more influential than “Seven Samurai,” an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way ...

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He guides through the many types of samurai armor in "47 Ronin," starring Keanu Reeves. He talks about how to battle multiple opponents at once in "Harakiri;" and "Seven Samurai," starring Toshiro ...

The concept itself was taken from Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai but presented an Americanized, western version of the story. A group of seven gunfighters are employed to protect a small town ...

Here’s how it works. Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune—best known for starring in films like Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, and Yojimbo for director Akira Kurosawa—has been dead for nearly ...

A monumental work in the history of cinema, Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai is a masterclass in storytelling and arguably one of the most influential films ever made. It was, at its time, the ...