Although Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo is the most remembered samurai film of that decade, the 1962 sequel was even better.

Director Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 heroes-on-a-mission movie 'Seven Samurai,' which starred Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, returns to U.S. theaters this summer in a new 4K restoration.

And unlike many of the films made in its image, this one is very much still worth a watch—again, or for the first time The ...

Let me get one thing out of the way: There are way more than seven swords in this movie.Tsui Hark’s wuxia spin on the Seven Samurai-like is adapted from a book, but the influence of Kurosawa’s ...

Seven Samurai is frequently cited as one of the greatest films ever made and was even voted the greatest foreign-language ...

Seven Samurai (1954) There is no better place to start than with Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic Seven Samurai, which follows a group ronin ... One of the more violent samurai movies, ...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 movie Seven Samurai set the template for the modern team-up, although its massive three-and-a-half-hour run time reaches far more epic heights than most. Like 2001 and ...

But “Seven Samurai” did not mimic the western so much as revitalize it. Hollywood’s 1960 remake, “The Magnificent Seven,” was itself a watershed movie; the two great western directors of ...

The plot of director Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic, “Seven Samurai,” can be summed up in one sentence: Mercenaries are hired to protect a farming village from marauding bandits.

Seki Sensei rates samurai battle scenes in movies and TV shows like "Shogun," "The Last Samurai," and "The Wolverine." ...

It’s no secret Akira Kurosawa‘s perennial Seven Samurai has influenced every underdog trope film of the last sixty years. From The Magnificent Seven and Bonnie and Clyde to Die Hard and Ocean ...