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Actors: Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Seven Samurai |
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The Seven Samurai is a film - a superrealistic film - about seven samurai agreeing to help a village of farmers prevent bandits from taking their crops. What's more, the samurai agree to do this for free, with no pay or prospects. The film documents the farmers wicked ways of getting good, honest samurai to defend them from the bandits, whilst pretending to be very poor so as to not have to give the samurai anything....the farmers greed. The film touches on the samurai training the farmers in order to fight the bandits and in the end the farmers wicked ways cost four good samurai their lives and in the end, the farmers win by doing nothing, ruining the samurai, especially the expert swordsman Kyuzo, whose character is the best....stoic, ascetic, one with all and what's more, very skilled at his job. Although the film has a good ending, it actually ends horribly-the deaths of so many good warriors at the expence of the farmers greed and delusion and selfishness. Yet after all the way of the warrior - bushido - is death. On a final note, this is the best film of all time and it highlights so many things that you actually become addicted to watching it and everytime notice something new. A must see.
--anastasia g, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Seven Samurai |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- middle ages
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- vigilante hunting down criminal(s)
Criminal enemy is...
- Asian crime gangs
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- gang
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Specific kind of enemies?
- captors
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
- lots of descript of crop raising
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 7 (a good amount)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
- guns
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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