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Seven Samurai was released to broadly positive reviews in the west, but film scholar Stuart Galbraith IV has noted it received "praise from American critics, but praise tainted by cultural condescension" for its perceived similarities to the American Western; nevertheless, it is now considered one of the greatest films in history. [45]
Samurai 7 (stylized as SAMURAI 7) is a 2004 anime television series produced by Gonzo and based on the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.The seven samurai have the same names and similar characteristics to their counterparts from the original.
Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Just as swiftly as Kambei Shimada (Takashi Shimura), the noble samurai leader of the seven, sprints this way ...
The samurai's testimony is heard through a medium. In his version of events, Tajōmaru asks the wife to marry him after the assault. To the samurai's shame, she accepts, asking Tajōmaru to kill the samurai first. This disgusts Tajōmaru, who gives the samurai the choice to let her go or have her killed. The wife then breaks free and flees.
The story centres on the coming together of two ambitious men from very different worlds, along with a mysterious female samurai. John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) is an English sailor who ends up ...
(Seven Samurai, for example, was written in this fashion.) [7] Often they all (except Oguni, who acted as "referee") would work on exactly the same pages of the script, and Kurosawa would choose the best-written version from the different drafts of each particular scene. [8]
As of 2024, it was the 6th highest-rated feature film on the social film cataloguing site Letterboxd, as an average of the site's user ratings; it is the second-highest rated Kurosawa film on the site, after Seven Samurai. [72] [73] On the media database IMDb, the film is the 84th highest-rated film as an average of user reviews. [74]
Beth and Mary get into a bit of a tussle but Mary is clearly panicked and not much of a killer, picking up a bread knife and cutting Beth's arm with a swipe, before helping her with the wound.