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.

Gaines pointed out the reason filmmakers continue to borrow from “Seven Samurai” is that the film is “a masterclass in ...

“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.

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.

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 ...

However, there is one classic film with a three-and-a-half-hour runtime that even modern audiences can agree doesn't waste a minute: Seven Samurai (1954), arguably the magnum opus of one of the ...

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 ...