Listen, nobody’s saying that any of the Seven Samurai didn’t pull their weight ... When the sensitive and hair-triggered farmer Rikichi (Yoshio Tsuchiya) lashes out at a joke being made ...

Akira Kurosawa’s film 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.

and “Seven Samurai” would help reestablish it. This image released by Janus Films shows Takashi Shimura, left, and Yoshio Inaba in a scene from the 1954 film "Seven Samurai." (Janus Films via ...