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Seven Samurai / Shichi-Nin No Samurai


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  Seven Samurai  / Shichi-Nin No Samurai Review
Tookey's Rating
8 /10
 
Average Rating
9.77 /10
 
Starring
Takashi Shimura , Toshiro Mifune , Yoshio Inaba
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Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Written by: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto


 
 
 
Released: 1954
   
Genre: ACTION
ADVENTURE
FOREIGN
COSTUME
EPIC
   
Origin: Japan
   
Length: 208
 
 


 
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"Kurosawa's brilliant new film... [in which his] method and personality emerge clearly... [He] is striving for... a recreation, a bringing to life of the past and the people whose story he is telling. Here, for all the surface conviction of period, the perceptive observation, the raging vitality and the magnificent visual style, the film doesn't quite succeed. One feels each incident is too carefully worked into the texture as a whole... These ultimate reservations should not, however, present us from recognizing the film's astonishing qualities... and one's final acknowledgement is not of the intrinsic fascination of the material but the wrested skill of the artifice."
(Tony Richardson, Sight & Sound)
"Seven Samurai is long; it is brutal; it is not always easy to follow. But it is magnificent."
(Dilys Powell)


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