Though Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” has been a cornerstone of Criterion’s library of cinematic classics since the very beginning of the company’s existence, a new 4K digital ...

The Criterion Collection’s November 2024 Releases Include ‘Paper Moon,’ ‘The Shape of Water,’ and a 4K Restoration of ‘Seven Samurai’ ...

Criterion is known for its lavish DVD and Blu-ray packages, many of which feature restorations of older films. The Criterion-Hulu partnership is for many movie lovers the chief draw of the $7.99-a ...

Akira Kurosawa's classic films, Seven Samurai and Dreams, are available on 4K Blu-ray for $25 each. For something creepier, you can never go wrong with the body-horror of a David Cronenberg movie.

"Seven Samurai," made in Japan in the early 1950s, was by far the most expensive film then made in the country. And it required the longest shoot, in part because the exhausted director needed ...

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 ...

But “Seven Samurai” shouldn’t have to pay for its paler imitations. Watching Kurosawa’s masterpiece again, what’s startling is just how much it remains in a class by itself.

“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 life.

Just as swiftly as Kambei Shimada (Takashi Shimura), the noble samurai leader of the seven, sprints this way and that in the climactic battle, “Seven Samurai” moves — man, does it move. It flies ...

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 ...

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 ...