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Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges.The screenplay, credited to William Roberts, is a remake – in an Old West-style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven).
The following is a list of works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution. This includes a complete list of films with which he was involved (including the films on which he worked as assistant director before becoming a full director), as well as his little-known contributions to theater, television and literature.
Notable film appearances were Seven Samurai and Twenty-Four Eyes. [2] He is also known for his role as Commander Gonpachi Edogawa in the tokusatsu superhero series Himitsu Sentai Gorenger. [3] He started his acting career at the Bungakuza theatre company in 1941. [4] In 1943, he made his stage debut with Denen . [2]
Download as PDF; Printable version ... [7] Kinema Junpo Best Ten ... Film Year 1 Tokyo Story: 1953 2 Seven Samurai: 1954 3 Floating Clouds: 1955 4 Sun in the Last ...
Toho International, Inc. (国際東宝㈱, Kokusai Tōhō Kabushiki Gaisha) [2] is an American company that is a subsidiary of Japanese entertainment company Toho. [3] [4] [5] Founded in May 1953, the company was initially created to sell films by Toho in North and South America; amongst their first features to export overseas were Seven Samurai and Godzilla (both 1954). [3]
1954 Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin Berlin Film Festival: West Germany Film Ikiru: 1954 Silver Lion of St. Mark (Second Prize) Venice Film Festival Italy Film Seven Samurai (1954) 1959 Diploma of Merit Jussi Award: Finland Directing Seven Samurai: 1959 Blue Ribbon Award The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists Japan Film The Hidden ...
A number of Akira Kurosawa's films have been remade.. Note: This list includes full remakes only; it does not include films whose narratives have been loosely inspired by the basic plot of one or more of the director's films – as A Bug's Life (1998) references both Seven Samurai (1954) and its Hollywood remake The Magnificent Seven (1960) – nor movies that adopt, adapt, or parody ...