Seven Samurai is still exciting as an action movie, and the dramatic core resonates to this day, too.The perfect screenplay ...

These 3 samurai women were some of history’s most legendary warriors. For hundreds of years, Japan was a warrior state. These women were among the country's fiercest.

Seven Samurai Through July 18 at Film Forum in Manhattan; filmforum.org . A version of this article appears in print on , Section C , Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Swords ...