There are, unsurprisingly, seven interesting and unique samurai who fight together in Seven Samurai, but which of the bunch is the best overall?

Toshiro Mifune! — but it goes deeper than the vast sum of its many parts. When Kurosawa decided to make what would be his first samurai film, Japan was just emerging from postwar American ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

1 of 5 | Toshiro Mifune stars in "Seven Samurai." Photo courtesy of Janus Films June 6 (UPI) -- Janus Films announced Thursday that Seven Samurai will return to theaters in July.

Toshiro Mifune plays Kikuchiyo in "Seven Samurai," which has been restored in 4K 70 years after its release.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, 1954’s Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai), is a technical and creative watershed of the action genre ...

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 breathtaking.

Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.

This summer, timed to the 1954 film’s 70th anniversary, a new restoration of “Seven Samurai” is playing in theaters beginning Wednesday in New York and expanding around the country July 12.

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 ...