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Actors: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Seven Samurai |
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A groups of farmers in a village suffer from bandits who attack their village. They seek out to hire samurai to defend the village. Innocent villagers led by Rikichi go to the city. After experiencing failure, they finally met veteran samurai (Kanbei Shimada) who is willing to help. With the aid of Kanbei they assembled a group of seven samurai. The villager started to learn how to fight the bandits. During the period of stay, they build friendship between farmer and samurai clan.
--Brian Rahardi, Resident Scholar
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Long acclaimed a classic of world cinema, "Seven Samurai" relates in epic fashion the seemingly small story of seven rootless warriors hired by a tiny farming village to protect them from raids by a gang of bandits. The characters of the various samurai and the villagers who fear them almost as much as the bandits grate on one another in humorous and dramatic ways; after training, planning, and some skirmishes, the final battle explodes into an apocalypse in master director Akira Kurosawa's hands. This 1954 film inspired the American remake "The Magnificent Seven," and shortly after its release was hacked down to various lengths between 2 and 3 hours and not restored to its original 201-minute version until the 1980s. Try to find a copy of that one; you'll be amazed at how much it absorbs you and how swiftly it flies.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Seven Samurai |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- citizens fighting criminals
- Japanese/Asian mob
Vigilante/Revenge?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- champion of justice
- senior military
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- bald
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 40%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Intelligence
- Dumb
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- climbing on trails
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude male butt
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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