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	The Seven Samurai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The only three surviving Samurai were the first three title character actors to die in real life: Daisuke Katô (Shichiroji) died in 1975, Isao Kimura (Katsushiro) died in 1981 and Takashi Shimura (Kambei) died in 1982.
		In one memorable scene from the film, Kikuchijo Toshiro Mifune shouts at the rest of the samurai because of a comment from Heichachi, who wished to punish all of the farmers for robbing a Samurai graveyard.
		This sequence is something of a personal apology from Akira Kurosawa, speaking as one of Samurai lineage, to the farmers and civilans of Japan for the centuries of suffering they endured at the hands of the Samurai class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Seven_Samurai (1060 words)

	Shichinin no Samurai (The Seven Samurai)
		People are enraged by the way samurai have acted toward them; they believe every samurai is against them, and they've fought and killed them to protect their land in the past.
		Afraid of what the Samurai would do to her, again underlining the tension that flies in the air between the two groups, he cuts her hair and starts asking her to behave like a man. She will have a relationship with Katsushiro that will make him grow.
		It will always be seven samurai and a bunch of scared farmers against forty skilled, ruthless, bloodthirsty bandits, but Kambei shows his wisdom by planning to precision a way to minimize their losses.
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	Seven Samurai
		For all of their virtue and prowess, the samurai make for strange heroes by our lights: all of their actions are undercut by a whiff of futility, and their only sense of belonging comes from the temporary alliances they form in battle.
		Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune), a besotted pretender to samurai status, is secretly goaded by the rage and shame of being a farmer’s son.
		Seven Samurai has a modern—and surprisingly bitter—sexual edge, most vividly expressed in the languorously extended shot of a woman driven half-mad by brutality as she seizes the chance to avenge herself on her captors.) Even the bandits’ deaths are made into ghastly, appalling affairs by the villagers’ ravenous appetite for revenge.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/SevenSamurai.htm (1282 words)

	Movie Review #2 - "Shichinin no Samurai" - Japan-101 Community
		The western classic “The Magnificent Seven” was an indirect retelling of “Shichinin no Samurai.” Anytime a plot involves a group of loners uniting for a cause, the legend begins anew.
		This point is skillfully illustrated in the recent film “The Last Samurai.” With Japanese lords being killed or fleeing their homes, the samurai was a skilled mercenary with no employer.
		While “Shinichin no Samurai” does require a lengthy investment of time (3hrs, 45 min), it is one of the most honest, compelling stories ever told on the silver screen.
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	Introduction to Seven Samurai
		Samurai warriors (similar to European Medieval knights) who had pledged their loyalty and used their swords in service of these defeated daimyo, suddenly found themselves without a lord to serve and honor, without a daimyo to reward them or to provide them sustenance.
		Although bringing back samurai to defend the village against the Bandits is crucial to the community's survival, Manzo is consumed by (ultimately selfish) fear of personal shame if his daughter Shino were to be seduced by one of the hired samurai.
		He is accepted as a samurai out of the passion, energy, and the intensity of his desire which transcends the social impediment of his class" (Mellon 8).
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum210/coursepack/sevensamurai.htm (3703 words)

	Shichinin no samurai (1954) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Story-telling at its finest, "Seven Samurai" is a terrific film not because of a handful of memorable scenes or lines, but rather because scene-by-scene, frame-by-frame, it tells an interesting story as well as it is possible to tell it.
		Those two have the best parts, but all seven of the samurai are memorable characters.
		A few of the villagers are also portrayed nicely, although they are naturally overshadowed when the samurai are around.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0047478 (625 words)

	Kurosawa’s Ronin
		In Shichinin no samurai, Kurosawa portrays the samurai as honorable individuals - as a class, however, the samurai are deemed destructive and untrustworthy.
		Although the samurai in the film are glorified by the warrior ideal, they are also vilified because of the corruption of their class - the bandits, who represent the disintegration of social ideals and the dangerous "foreigner" with firearms.
		Compared to Rashomon or Shichinin no samurai, there is less of a compromise between the individual (self) and the turbulence and civil disorder of society in Yojimbo, as Mifune’s character provides the fantasy of defeating the West, rather than reminding the audience of postwar Japan to adapt to Western influence.
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	The Seven Samurai
		The Seven Samurai move into the village, train the frightened peasants to assist in their own defence, and do battle when the bandits arrive.
		During the 1950s and early 1960s the period film again became a surrogate for modern Japan and a subtle cultural device for simultaneously assailing modern Japan, with her current evils, while showing the ingrained historical, social, and structural roots of the problems at hand.
		The importance of the peasant "samurai" Kikuchiyo (Mifune) who knows the peasants have concealed food, wine and their women from the professional samurai.
	homepage.mac.com /dmhart/WarFilms/OldGuides/7Samurai.html (769 words)

	DVD & Movie Reviews : Seven Samurai
		Seven Samurai is the much-copied-by-Hollywood tale of a Japanese farming community and its efforts to protect itself against marauders.
		A raiding party of brigands occupies the village, but discovering no food is yet available they leave but vow to return when the crops are ripe.
		Back in the village the samurai ready the villagers to defend their crops and families just in time for the big battle with the bandits.
	www.webwombat.com.au /entertainment/dvds/7samurai.htm (314 words)

	Amazon.com: Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection (1954): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the original, the farmers recruit the seven ronin (samurai without a master) by enlisting the aid of one especially astute samurai, Kambei, who is dogged by a young amateur who wishes to apprentice to the master.
		The samurai and the villagers directed by Kambei, construct defenses for the village after the barley harvest and the samurai train the villagers in basic tactics using bamboo spears.
		This is added to their other distrust of the samurai being around their daughters and wives, who have a bad habit of falling for the highly capable fighters.
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	DVD Reviewer - Seven Samurai (a.k.a. Shichinin No Samurai)
		He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day.
		One day after an attack they seek the wisdom of an elder who tells them they cannot afford weapons, but they can find men with weapons, Samurai, who will fight for them, if they find Samurai who are in down on their luck and wondering where their next meal will come from.
		He selects five genuine Samurai and one who is suspect but the seven return to the village to protect it from the forty plus bandits.
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	Inspiration: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		“Shichinin no samurai” is a story about a veteran samurai who answers a village’s request for protection against armed bandits.
		This veteran samurai whom is a very experienced and has an enormous heart agrees to recruit samurai that will fight to protect the village.
		The veteran samurai can be seen as a parallel with Flik when he was sent to recruit a group of bugs to protect the ants from the grasshoppers.
	bartik.brynmawr.edu /students/jhansen/Inspiration.html (234 words)

	Seven Samurai [Korean LE 2-Disc Box] DVD \| dir.: Akira Kurosawa \| cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, ...
		The villagers send men out looking for samurai to help defend them; and the samurai, in turn, help to enlist more samurai until there are seven.
		The villagers are grateful to the samurai, and yet fearful and resentful.
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	Seven Samurai Film Notes
		The FARMERS down in the Village: Terrified villagers have gathered in the central square, crouching and lamenting in despair at the inevitability of yet another Bandit attack in the future.
		Unrelentingly mocked by the town laborers, Mosuke bemoans the rice they have wasted trying to recruit worthless samurai, the latest of which has eaten their rice, then beaten him up: Mosuke is ready to give up.
		When Mosuke asks about the samurai who cut off his topknot, local onlookers explain that nobody knows more than that the samurai agreed to save the child, asked for two rice balls, had his head shaved, and asked the priest to lend him his robes.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum210/coursepack/samuraifilmnotes1.htm (2840 words)

	Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954)
		This particular samurai is shaving his head so he can pretend to be a priest, and rescue a boy who is being held hostage.
		No matter how good the remakes are, they fall short of the Kurosawa magic.
		There are no significant audio sync problems (although I find Japanese difficult to judge because I can't readily associate the sounds with mouth shapes).
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4336 (1988 words)

	Shichinin no samurai, magnificent seven review
		"Shichinin no samurai," released in 1954, is considered by some to be the greatest Japanese film ever made, and one of the best made anywhere.
		The significant brilliance of "Shichinin no samurai" is partially in Kurosawa's virtually unmatched visual poetry.
		In "Shichinin no samurai," the frame composition is exquisite; if the wind is seen to blow, it has meaning; if it rains, a layer of emotion and exposition is added; what is in the frame, who is in the frame, how they are lit, where they are in focus, all add meaning.
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	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Seven Samurai
		This is extremely effective in the three-shot technique seen throughout the battles: a bandit enters the village on a horse; one of the samurai attacks him; in close-up the horse's feet dance in frantic entrapment through the mud as the bandit falls and is set upon by the villagers.
		Approached by the samurai, the camera glides back to show the villager holding an enormous pole on which one of the bandits is impaled, the villager too shocked by what he's done to let go.
		A few critics have carped that Kurosawa sublimated character to historical sweep, that the samurai and the villagers are not flesh and blood men but "types," lost in the director's elaborate epic canvas.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /17/10_samurai.html (993 words)

	Weblog Entry - 07/30/2003: "A Five Minute Review of a Great Movie" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It’s Shichinin no samurai, which translates into English as “Seven Samurai.” I’d have no quarrel if someone called it the best movie ever made.
		Ignoring the several subplots for the moment, the main story is basically about the samurais’ charity and companionship, and the farmers’ development of courage.
		And because of the other five samurai, the direction, the final bandit-attack scene, the seamlessness of the story, the direction, the military strategy...
	pieterfriedrich.com /blog/entries/00000092.htm (568 words)

	FilmHead.com - Video Picks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai tells the story about a small farming community in rural Japan that is constantly harassed by raiding bandits.
		They hire seven unemployed samurai to defend their village from a coming attack.
		Stealing the show, of course, is Toshiro Mifune as a country boy who is merely posing as a samurai, but redeems himself through courage and determination (not to mention a really, really big sword).
	www.filmhead.com /video/2000/041200.html (328 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Seven Samurai
		A desperate village hires seven samurai to protect it from marauders in this crown jewel of Japanese cinema.
		No other film so seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action.
		Seven Samurai was transferred from a new 35mm composite low-contrast print in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=2 (89 words)

	Silicon Fusion >> News >> Shichinin no samurai
		Seven is the number that must be gathered, you are one they are six.
		In the beginning Akira Kurasawa made the Shichinin no samurai - the Seven Samurai.
		Seven Samurai 20XX promises to bring the cult action of the film bang into this decade and to introduce a whole knew generation to the classic tale.
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	Shichinin no samurai (1954) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		After watching this film a couple of times, I truly see how worldwide cinema simply would not be the same today without Seven Samurai, or any film by the great Kurosawa.
		This film defined the action drama, and what's utterly astonishing to me is how Kurosawa perfectly balanced each character, particularly the seven title characters, so that you actually care about each one and are engrossed just as much in the story of each of them as you are in the impending bandit invasion.
	www.ymdb.com /shichinin-no-samurai/f0047478_ukuk.html (372 words)

	DVD.net : Kurosawa: Seven Samurai - DVD Review
		A prospective Samurai in Kikuchiyo, a wild and reckless boy, follows until he proves himself in battle and becomes the seventh Samurai of the title.
		The Samurai prepare the villagers and train them to fight and before long the marauders show up and the battle begins in earnest.
		Seven Samurai was adapted by Hollywood and Americanised for the western audience into The Magnificent Seven.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3748 (1254 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Shichinin No Samurai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		High adventure and excitement are stamped all over this solid-core film about a group of seven Samurai warriors who save a little village from annihilation at the hands of a group of bandits in 15th-century Japan.
		Bandits are waiting to attack an isolated village as soon as the rice is ripe.
		Then follows a series of deft bits as the seven men are gathered and head for the village to prepare defenses, train the men, and get ready for the onslaught.
	www.variety.com /article/VE1117794834 (334 words)

	Seven Samurai- Shichinin no Samurai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This site is dedicated to Seven Samurai, one of the most famous (and acclaimed) Japanese movies in the world.
		Famous for its ideals, scenery, camerawork, director and American offshoots, this movie is known around the globe.
		Shichinin no Samurai is ©opyright Toho, this is a non-profit fansite.
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	NG BBS - Shichinin no Samurai
		NG BBS / General / Shichinin no Samurai
		Its obviouse that even by the tile you can tell its made by the greatest samurai director of all time Akira Kurosawa.
		Posted: 6/5/04 06:29 AM People might be more familiar with The Magnificent Seven, which was based off Seven Samurai, if I'm not mistaken.
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	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison Akira Kurosawa's - Seven Samurai - Shichinin no samurai DVD Review akira kurosawa seven ...
		A negative would be the gaudy and large yellow subtitles and of, course that the 'Making of Seven Samurai' supplement does not have English subtitles.
		Other than that this appears to be the release to buy - tack onto that it is less than $30 and you have yourself a Kurosawa classic in its most appealing digital format.
		NOTE: The French edition shown (no English subs) is still no match for the Criterion.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare7/sevensamurai.htm (1095 words)

	Magill's Survey of Cinema: SEVEN SAMURAI; SHICHININ NO SAMURAI@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Abstract: Akira Kurosawa directed this samurai film about a group of expert warriors led by Kambei (Takashi Shimura).
		Kambei's disciple, Katsushiro (Ko Kimura), falls in love with a farmer's daughter but decides to leave the village anyway after the samurais' victory.
		Summary: To many, Akira Kurosawa's 1954 epic SEVEN SAMURAI is quite possibly the greatest Japanese film ever made; to many more, it stands among the six or so best motion pictures in history.
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