list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Seven Samurai on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Seven_Samurai/30732/default.aspx Title: Seven Samurai
Year: 1954
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Plot: Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, a group of farmers begs him to defend their terrorized village from bandits. Kambei agrees, although there is no material gain or honor to be had in the endeavor. Soon he attracts a pair of followers: a young samurai named Katsushiro (Isao Kimura), who quickly becomes Kambei's disciple, and boisterous Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune), who poses as a samurai but is later revealed to be the son of a farmer. Kambei assembles four other samurais, including Kyuzo (Seiji Miyaguchi), a master swordsman, to round out the group. Together they consolidate the village's defenses and shape the villagers into a militia, while the bandits loom menacingly nearby. Soon raids and counter-raids build to a final bloody heart-wrenching battle. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:07:31 GMTSeven Samurai1954Akira Kurosawa<a href="/players/P____98309/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Akira Kurosawa</a>'s epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei (<a href="/players/P____65330/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Takashi Shimura</a>) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, a group of farmers begs him to defend their terrorized village from bandits. Kambei agrees, although there is no material gain or honor to be had in the endeavor. Soon he attracts a pair of followers: a young samurai named Katsushiro (Isao Kimura), who quickly becomes Kambei's disciple, and boisterous Kikuchiyo (<a href="/players/P____49015/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Toshiro Mifune</a>), who poses as a samurai but is later revealed to be the son of a farmer. Kambei assembles four other samurais, including Kyuzo (Seiji Miyaguchi), a master swordsman, to round out the group. Together they consolidate the village's defenses and shape the villagers into a militia, while the bandits loom menacingly nearby. Soon raids and counter-raids build to a final bloody heart-wrenching battle. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide27Tag Target (>10)9510174http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t82311swgah.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Seven_Samurai/30732/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/the_mow/archive/2009/4/27/41797.aspx Post By: The_MOW
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Post Date: 4/27/2009 11:56:53 AM
Body: "The Seven Samurai" is a tediously long movie (about 3 hours and 30 minutes in length) about a village of farmers who hire a small band of samurai to defend their village from a much larger group of bandits. The film is really slow at the beginning, and it takes a long time to introduce the samurais. However, once they arrive at the village the pace of the movie picks up a bit. Some of the acting is a bit over-the-top and hard to believe, but most of that is the characters that are there for comic relief. Many others appear to be trying to hard in their acting and come across as poor performances. Personally, I just couldn't get into the main characters enough to feel anything when some were either killed or injured. The visuals are done well, with only a few scenes that don't come across well due to what little light there is. The fighting scenes, and there are a lot of them, are nicely done and edited very well. Overall, "The Seven Samurai" is a pretty good movie that is worth a look if your first choice is not available at your local video rental store.
]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:56:53 GMTThe_MOWThe_MOW Blog4/27/2009 11:56:53 AM"The Seven Samurai" is a tediously long movie (about 3 hours and 30 minutes in length) about a village of farmers who hire a small band of samurai to defend their village from a much larger group of bandits. The film is really slow at the beginning, and it takes a long time to introduce the samurais. However, once they arrive at the village the pace of the movie picks up a bit. Some of the acting is a bit over-the-top and hard to believe, but most of that is the characters that are there for comic relief. Many others appear to be trying to hard in their acting and come across as poor performances. Personally, I just couldn't get into the main characters enough to feel anything when some were either killed or injured. The visuals are done well, with only a few scenes that don't come across well due to what little light there is. The fighting scenes, and there are a lot of them, are nicely done and edited very well. Overall, "The Seven Samurai" is a pretty good movie that is worth a look if your first choice is not available at your local video rental store. http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Which_of_these_films_written_by_Shinobu_Hashimoto/657/41361/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 3/31/2009 1:24:05 PM
Body: Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. I recently watched the amazing Harakiri. It's one of the best films I've seen in a while. I just discovered that a man named Shinobu Hashimoto was a screenwriter on this film and some of the greatest and most well known Japanese films including many of the best known samurai films and many of Kurosawa's best films. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:The Bad Sleep WellDodes'ka-denHarakiriThe Hidden FortressIkiruRashomonSamurai RebellionSeven SamuraiThe Sword of DoomThrone of Blood
]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:24:05 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls3/31/2009 1:24:05 PMPlease reference this thread for the rules of this group. I recently watched the amazing Harakiri. It's one of the best films I've seen in a while. I just discovered that a man named Shinobu Hashimoto was a screenwriter on this film and some of the greatest and most well known Japanese films including many of the best known samurai films and many of Kurosawa's best films. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:The Bad Sleep WellDodes'ka-denHarakiriThe Hidden FortressIkiruRashomonSamurai RebellionSeven SamuraiThe Sword of DoomThrone of Blood http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_July_14_The_Angry_Mob/625/32684/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Post Date: 7/17/2008 2:47:36 PM
Body: [quote user="unclefestering"] Just before I slipped off to sleep last night I suddenly remembered the scene from the Seven Samurai where the samurai are trying to keep the villagers away from the one bandit they have caputured. They hold everyone back except for the old grandmother whose entire family has been killed by bandits. [/quote] Oh yeah!! I had forgotten that one too, freakin' sweeeeeet. There's a similar scene at the end of Open Range when the bad guys have been run off and most of all the action packed gun fight is over and in the background you see the group of townspeople chasing down the remaining member of the gang and killing him as he tries to escape.
]]>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:47:36 GMTleeroy711Weekly Theme7/17/2008 2:47:36 PM[quote user="unclefestering"] Just before I slipped off to sleep last night I suddenly remembered the scene from the Seven Samurai where the samurai are trying to keep the villagers away from the one bandit they have caputured. They hold everyone back except for the old grandmother whose entire family has been killed by bandits. [/quote] Oh yeah!! I had forgotten that one too, freakin' sweeeeeet. There's a similar scene at the end of Open Range when the bad guys have been run off and most of all the action packed gun fight is over and in the background you see the group of townspeople chasing down the remaining member of the gang and killing him as he tries to escape. http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_July_14_The_Angry_Mob/625/32665/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: unclefestering
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Post Date: 7/17/2008 11:30:44 AM
Body: Just before I slipped off to sleep last night I suddenly remembered the scene from the Seven Samurai where the samurai are trying to keep the villagers away from the one bandit they have caputured. They hold everyone back except for the old grandmother whose entire family has been killed by bandits.
]]>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:44 GMTunclefesteringWeekly Theme7/17/2008 11:30:44 AMJust before I slipped off to sleep last night I suddenly remembered the scene from the Seven Samurai where the samurai are trying to keep the villagers away from the one bandit they have caputured. They hold everyone back except for the old grandmother whose entire family has been killed by bandits. http://www.spout.com/blogs/smithco/archive/2008/6/22/31529.aspx Post By: smithco
Post To: My Ponderings on Cinema
Post Date: 6/22/2008 11:56:13 PM
Body: I finally saw Seven Samurai. It is undoubtably a great film. Though by the intermission came around, I was thinking that it is not as good as The Magnificent Seven (1960) A lot of people may want to fit my neck for a rope for stating that, but that's what I was thinking. For me, comparing the two is an excercise in comparing great works. I hope that my opinion here is not constued as a dislike for Kuosawa's masterpiece. It seemed to me that The Magnificent Seven surpassed Seven Samurai in four areas. First is the pacing. I doubt anyone would notice if forty minutes were cut from Seven Samurai. There's a lot of scenes of people staring at each other, scenes that repeated exposition of the story, and a lot of extraneous battle preperation scenes. Generally, the pacing of The Magnificent Seven is a lot tighter: the same story is told just as effectively in much less time. Second is the dialogue. The snappy banter of the characters in The Magnificent Seven is very entertaining. I just didn't get that from Seven Samurai. Naturally, there is a loss in the translation. The grammatical and typographical errors in the subtitiles didn't help much either. I won't fault the original script for this, but the movie deserves a better translation before it can be properly enjoyed. Third is the villain, the leader of the bandits. In Seven Samurai we hardly see the bandit leader, he just shows up at the start and at the end and is supposed to be scary. He was just too thin a character to engage me. In contrast, throughout The Magnificent Seven, Eli Wallach turned out some great scenes as the villanous Calvera. The script of The Magnificent Seven takes the time to get to know Calvera in a meaningful way. That leads us to the fourth point. The actors in The Magnificent Seven are second to none. The acting in Seven Samurai is very good, but The Magnificent Seven had some of the best actors to ever be on film. Well there it is. I say The Magnificent Seven is a better film than Seven Samurai. And yes, I do expect to have my opinion confronted by someone. But, at least I have my reasons relatively well laid out for everyone to consider.
]]>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:56:13 GMTsmithcoMy Ponderings on Cinema6/22/2008 11:56:13 PMI finally saw Seven Samurai. It is undoubtably a great film. Though by the intermission came around, I was thinking that it is not as good as The Magnificent Seven (1960) A lot of people may want to fit my neck for a rope for stating that, but that's what I was thinking. For me, comparing the two is an excercise in comparing great works. I hope that my opinion here is not constued as a dislike for Kuosawa's masterpiece. It seemed to me that The Magnificent Seven surpassed Seven Samurai in four areas. First is the pacing. I doubt anyone would notice if forty minutes were cut from Seven Samurai. There's a lot of scenes of people staring at each other, scenes that repeated exposition of the story, and a lot of extraneous battle preperation scenes. Generally, the pacing of The Magnificent Seven is a lot tighter: the same story is told just as effectively in much less time. Second is the dialogue. The snappy banter of the characters in The Magnificent Seven is very entertaining. I just didn't get that from Seven Samurai. Naturally, there is a loss in the translation. The grammatical and typographical errors in the subtitiles didn't help much either. I won't fault the original script for this, but the movie deserves a better translation before it can be properly enjoyed. Third is the villain, the leader of the bandits. In Seven Samurai we hardly see the bandit leader, he just shows up at the start and at the end and is supposed to be scary. He was just too thin a character to engage me. In contrast, throughout The Magnificent Seven, Eli Wallach turned out some great scenes as the villanous Calvera. The script of The Magnificent Seven takes the time to get to know Calvera in a meaningful way. That leads us to the fourth point. The actors in The Magnificent Seven are second to none. The acting in Seven Samurai is very good, but The Magnificent Seven had some of the best actors to ever be on film. Well there it is. I say The Magnificent Seven is a better film than Seven Samurai. And yes, I do expect to have my opinion confronted by someone. But, at least I have my reasons relatively well laid out for everyone to consider. http://www.spout.com/groups/Friends_of_Foreign_Flicks/Re_Foreign_Film_Name_Game/591/28065/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Post Date: 5/1/2008 6:22:41 PM
Body: Seven Samurai
]]>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:22:41 GMTleeroy711Friends of Foreign Flicks5/1/2008 6:22:41 PMSeven Samurai http://www.spout.com/groups/Friends_of_Foreign_Flicks/Re_Why_I_got_into_foreign_films/591/27906/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 4/28/2008 2:03:50 PM
Body: [quote user="csprague"]Yeah, World Cinema. Oh Carl Plantinga:) I love that man. He was brilliant, and yet some how out of the loop. I actually had him for my first film course ever, it happened to be an interim that did a brief overview and examination of the hollywood system. I took it on a whim, thinking I would rather spend the month watching movies than reading books. It changed my major to Film Studies:) I guess good profs do that. or maybe just good films.[/quote] Yeah that's awesome! I love that guy. I think it was in the middle of that class that the big movie theater in the new building on campus opened up. Many movies we watched I had seen before, but I don't see many movies on a big screen like that, especially older ones. You can't imagine how much more I loved some of my favorite movies after seeing them in there such as Bicycle Thieves, The Seventh Seal, and Seven Samurai.
]]>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:03:50 GMTRisseladaFriends of Foreign Flicks4/28/2008 2:03:50 PM[quote user="csprague"]Yeah, World Cinema. Oh Carl Plantinga:) I love that man. He was brilliant, and yet some how out of the loop. I actually had him for my first film course ever, it happened to be an interim that did a brief overview and examination of the hollywood system. I took it on a whim, thinking I would rather spend the month watching movies than reading books. It changed my major to Film Studies:) I guess good profs do that. or maybe just good films.[/quote] Yeah that's awesome! I love that guy. I think it was in the middle of that class that the big movie theater in the new building on campus opened up. Many movies we watched I had seen before, but I don't see many movies on a big screen like that, especially older ones. You can't imagine how much more I loved some of my favorite movies after seeing them in there such as Bicycle Thieves, The Seventh Seal, and Seven Samurai. http://www.spout.com/groups/Friends_of_Foreign_Flicks/Re_Why_I_got_into_foreign_films/591/27851/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
Post To: Friends of Foreign Flicks
Post Date: 4/26/2008 12:56:31 PM
Body: [quote user="yojimbo73"] For me it was catching Kung Fu Theatre and the old British horror films during summer break from middle school in the 80's. I would check the tv every morning hoping the weather conditions were just right to get a snowy picture from some Baltimore station which was a couple hours away. My local video store (which was in the back of a barber shop) didn't have a foreign section, so it was quite some time before I saw anything else not produced in the states. Eventualy I left home, moved closer to Baltimore and got to enjoy Samurai Theatre which got me hooked on Kurosawa. Then Blockbusters popped up everywhere and I would gobble up everything they had. Now with the internet and region free DVD players I catch the good and the bad from all over. I can't recommend enough getting a region free player. I guess ultimately I got in to foreign films because they told stories that weren't being told here in ways we weren't telling them. Coming from a small town it was my only outlet to this big world that I had for a long time. It's funny, some times I wonder if I think a foreign movie is good only because I don't understand the language. If I could speak it, would I realize the performances (and thus the movie) were crap? [/quote] Yeah, Kurosawa is one of the many directors that I am very behind on. I think the only film of his I've seen was The Seven Samurai. I loved it and I know my netflix queue has about 5 more of his in it that I just haven't gotton around to (any suggestions?) I think the language barrier can sometimes make it harder to tell if the performance was good, especially if there is a lot of dialogue and you have to pay more attention to the subtitles than the acting but overall I don't find it too distracting. It is interesting however to think of people from small towns, like myself thirsting for art from around the world.
]]>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:56:31 GMTleeroy711Friends of Foreign Flicks4/26/2008 12:56:31 PM[quote user="yojimbo73"] For me it was catching Kung Fu Theatre and the old British horror films during summer break from middle school in the 80's. I would check the tv every morning hoping the weather conditions were just right to get a snowy picture from some Baltimore station which was a couple hours away. My local video store (which was in the back of a barber shop) didn't have a foreign section, so it was quite some time before I saw anything else not produced in the states. Eventualy I left home, moved closer to Baltimore and got to enjoy Samurai Theatre which got me hooked on Kurosawa. Then Blockbusters popped up everywhere and I would gobble up everything they had. Now with the internet and region free DVD players I catch the good and the bad from all over. I can't recommend enough getting a region free player. I guess ultimately I got in to foreign films because they told stories that weren't being told here in ways we weren't telling them. Coming from a small town it was my only outlet to this big world that I had for a long time. It's funny, some times I wonder if I think a foreign movie is good only because I don't understand the language. If I could speak it, would I realize the performances (and thus the movie) were crap? [/quote] Yeah, Kurosawa is one of the many directors that I am very behind on. I think the only film of his I've seen was The Seven Samurai. I loved it and I know my netflix queue has about 5 more of his in it that I just haven't gotton around to (any suggestions?) I think the language barrier can sometimes make it harder to tell if the performance was good, especially if there is a lot of dialogue and you have to pay more attention to the subtitles than the acting but overall I don't find it too distracting. It is interesting however to think of people from small towns, like myself thirsting for art from around the world. http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/12/21/23055.aspx Post By: paul
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Post Date: 12/21/2007 4:15:24 PM
Body: Remakes: The Weinsteins are remaking Seven Samurai. Is it sacrilege? What if Pulp Fiction and The Matrix were remakes? We speculate the originals: Pulp Fiction (1975), The Dot-Matrix (1971). Movies remaking (and reshaping) history: Once Upon a Time in America, The New World, The Patriot and more. Download FilmCouch #22 or subscribe in the iTunes store (search for “filmcouch” or click here to launch iTunes) and a new free episode will download every Friday. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul
]]>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:15:24 GMTpaulpaul on spout.com12/21/2007 4:15:24 PMRemakes: The Weinsteins are remaking Seven Samurai. Is it sacrilege? What if Pulp Fiction and The Matrix were remakes? We speculate the originals: Pulp Fiction (1975), The Dot-Matrix (1971). Movies remaking (and reshaping) history: Once Upon a Time in America, The New World, The Patriot and more. Download FilmCouch #22 or subscribe in the iTunes store (search for “filmcouch” or click here to launch iTunes) and a new free episode will download every Friday. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul http://www.spout.com/blogs/downwest/archive/2007/12/13/22778.aspx Post By: downwest
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Post Date: 12/13/2007 11:05:27 AM
Body: When I think of Michelangelo, I think of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, or the statue of David. I think of J.S. Bach and I think of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Now, when I think of Akira Kurosawa, I think of Seven Samurai, a timeless classic that will maintain its value in artwork for the rest of human history.The lengths that Kurosawa went to to complete this film were immense. It took over a year in production alone, so that says something to us today when we see films shot in a period of three months or so. The man was clearly a genius, and kept pressing for the vision he wanted, and he got it. Everything from waiting for the wind to blow, so the shadows of a tree would dance on a peasant's skull (to capture the excitement of a scene) to getting a river to flow upwards for a different effect, Kurosawa went for it all. Indeed, Kurosawa was a master of subtlety in composition. One of if not the greatest work of film of the 20th century.
]]>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:05:27 GMTdownwestdownwest Blog12/13/2007 11:05:27 AMWhen I think of Michelangelo, I think of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, or the statue of David. I think of J.S. Bach and I think of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor of Jesu, Joy of Man&#39;s Desiring. Now, when I think of Akira Kurosawa, I think of Seven Samurai, a timeless classic that will maintain its value in artwork for the rest of human history.The lengths that Kurosawa went to to complete this film were immense. It took over a year in production alone, so that says something to us today when we see films shot in a period of three months or so. The man was clearly a genius, and kept pressing for the vision he wanted, and he got it. Everything from waiting for the wind to blow, so the shadows of a tree would dance on a peasant&#39;s skull (to capture the excitement of a scene) to getting a river to flow upwards for a different effect, Kurosawa went for it all. Indeed, Kurosawa was a master of subtlety in composition. One of if not the greatest work of film of the 20th century. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Classic/MemberTagFilms.aspxClassic
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