We’ve reached the 70th anniversary of Akita Kurosawa’s magnificent Seven Samurai, the hugely influential film about a small town that hires seven samurai to defend their homes from local bandits.

From medieval beginnings, the samurai have inspired art, fiction and films, from Shōgun to Star Wars. But their true story is ...

Season 2’s community theme kicks off with the patriarch of modern action cinema, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. An epic story of samurai helping a small village community defend itself against ...

Few movies have been more influential than “Seven Samurai,” an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way into existence. “Seven ...

Akira Kurosawa loved the films of Charlie Chaplin and John Ford. The Japanese director’s movies often drew on his wide-ranging cinephilia.

If you're after action movies that are under 80 minutes but still deliver, it's worth checking out classics like The General and Run Lola Run.

NEW YORK — Akira Kurosawa’s “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. To ...

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