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The movie acknowledges its debt to Seven Samurai by calling the protagonist's homeworld Akir and its inhabitants the Akira. Released in 1975 Indian movie Sholay was also inspired from same genre. The plot of Seven Samurai was re-worked for The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983), an Italian sword-and-sandal film.
Samurai I won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.. In a review almost 60 years after the release of the trilogy, the late academic and film critic Stephen Prince noted "the absence of gore" in the films: "Severed limbs and spurting arteries hadn't yet arrived as a movie convention, and the fights in The Samurai Trilogy are relatively chaste, not showing the carnage that such ...
[24] In his Great Movies review of Seven Samurai, Ebert called Ikiru Kurosawa's greatest film. [25] In 2008, Wally Hammond of Time Out praised Ikiru as "one of the triumphs of humanist cinema." [26] That year, The New Yorker's Michael Sragow described it as a "masterwork," noting Kurosawa was usually associated more with his action films. [27]
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 company was founded in 1984 by Robert Stein, Aleen Stein and Joe Medjuck, who later were joined by Roger Smith.In 1985, the Steins, William Becker and Jonathan B. Turell founded the Voyager Company [8] to publish educational multimedia CD-ROMs (1989–2000), [8] [9] and the Criterion Collection became a subordinate division of the Voyager Company, with Janus Films holding a minority stake ...
The Hidden Fortress (Japanese: 隠し砦の三悪人, Hepburn: Kakushi Toride no San Akunin, lit. ' The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress ') is a 1958 Japanese jidaigeki [5] adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.