Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. From TMDB
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60 of 275 · most liked firstLast year my dad told me his favourite film was The Seven Samurai. He said the 1954 movie changed the way he viewed cinema. I've never seen Kurosawa's 3-hour epic, but but will finally remedy that today at the glorious Garden Cinema.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah but what if the Melania movie was called Seven Samurai instead? And then when you went to see it they just showed you Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai? I bet you liberals would *love* it then. Typical.
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone said, "the good Star Wars movies reference Kurosawa, the bad Star Wars movie reference other Star Wars movies." That's why in my novel, the characters never mention Star Wars but can't shut up about Seven Samurai. That way, it will be good
neutral · AI labelView post →Any movie over 3 hours long is a holiday season movie. Andrei Rublev, Seven Samurai, The Godfather, Jeanne Dielman, Fellowship of the Ring. Maybe go watch The Brutalist. Whatever. Sit down and enrich your life. You've probably got nothing going on today anyway.
neutral · AI labelView post →so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"
neutral · AI labelView post →idk if anyone's heard of this movie, it's called " Seven Samurai " but we watched it and it's pretty good. big things in the future for this Mifune guy i think
positive · AI labelView post →There's not a single film that wouldn't be better if the main character had a fat ass. Venom, Seven Samurai, Seven, The Magnificent Seven, and other movies. Seven fat juicy asses that's what the audience wants.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in 1954, Akira Kurosawa released his epic samurai action flick Seven Samurai. Aside from being one of the most remade, reworked, and often referenced films in cinema, it's also thought of as the movie that started the "assembling the team" genre of films!
neutral · AI labelView post →April 26, 1954: "Seven Samurai", Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, is released.
neutral · AI labelView post →🧵Spotted (and heard) at a screening of Seven Samurai in a delightful art deco cinema in small city Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (80s+) taking his teenage grandson to watch a film he saw for the first time at 15. Is beaming ear to ear at his grandson's excited chatter as they leave. (1)
neutral · AI labelView post →Seven Samurai is coming back to theaters with a new 4K restoration.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ten non horror movies to get to know me Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (duh) Seven Samurai Monsieur Hulot's Holiday The Muppet Movie The Peanuts Movie Raiders of the Lost Ark Five Deadly Venoms Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster Bowfinger You Can't Take It with You
neutral · AI labelView post →From Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic masterpiece, Seven Samurai (1954). The wide, medium-long shot frames a poignant encounter between Katsushiro, the youngest and most idealistic of the samurai played by Isao Kimura, and Shino, a vulnerable village girl portrayed by Keiko Tsushima.
neutral · AI labelView post →I recently rewatched, Seven Samurai (1954). I can’t add anything new to what’s already been said about this landmark film, so I’ll just say that Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa belong on the Mount Rushmore of greatest actor/director combos ever.
positive · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Seven Samurai (1954) By Andrew Roland
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally saw Seven Samurai recently and I'm kind of obsessed with how Toshio Mifune carries himself in the film. He always has the perfect silhouette, no matter where the camera is.
positive · AI labelView post →Ocarina of Time is one of those handful of games I honestly don't think you can play the "it was never good" card about. It's like saying Seven Samurai was never a good movie. It's something no human being tethered to reality could say and mean even if they didn't personally like it. It's absurd.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am going to watch the movie "Seven Samurai" and you cannot stop me. It is too late for you to stop me.
neutral · AI labelView post →If I put on Seven Samurai because I want background noise for the next 3 1/2 hours, and fail to appreciate the movie as a result, that’s on me. The movie shouldn’t do a damn thing to placate someone who isn’t watching.
neutral · AI labelView post →the best part of the movie SEVEN SAMURAI is that it literally has a scene where the samurai go "we couldn't possibly pull this off with just FOUR of us, why, we'd need something like SEVEN SAMURAI to do this"
neutral · AI labelView post →Seven Samurai is a movie so good that not only has it become an archetypal plot that's been transplanted to different genres (Magnificent Seven being the most notable), but parody subversion of it have ALSO become a stock plotline.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ya know, I was always hard on "Magnificent Seven" because of my snobby attitude of "pfft, it's just a stupid cowboy copy of Seven Samurai." But having rewatched it yesterday, it's really a cool movie. Has its own identity and ideas. Still not as good as Seven Samurai but definitely worth a watch.
positive · AI labelView post →At most, people want to see you do Seven Samurai with a movie version, the Mandalorian rolls into town with some Imperial warlords oppressing the poor people and he assembles a motley crew to drive them off the planet.
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/8FVgb Kane on the big screen, two movies that surprised me in different ways, and one of the best interpolations of Seven Samurai ever.
neutral · AI labelView post →I once showed a non-film-loving friend Seven Samurai by inviting him over, sitting him down, and saying "we are gonna watch this and it's going to change your mind and make you love movies" and you know what? It did
positive · AI labelView post →Either Seven Samurai at Film Forum, or Showgirls in the Castro.
neutral · AI labelView post →*sees a movie riffing on SEVEN SAMURAI* “this movie is stealing from A BUG’S LIFE!” movie Twitter, I beg you to watch a movie not expressly made for children
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d make Heat: The Musical Se7en on ice Assault on Precinct 13 with toddlers Muppet Blood Meridian Seven Squirrels (Seven Samurai but squirrels) Get Ken Loach to remake every Marvel movie with a cast of non-actors from Newcastle The Seventh Seal video game I’d be back to being poor by 2029
neutral · AI labelView post →Akira Kurosawa filming 'Seven Samurai' (1954)
neutral · AI labelView post →Alright I used to just give this as my pretentious high schooler answer but THE SEVEN SAMURAI might actually be the best movie ever made, pound for pound, right?
positive · AI labelView post →Another set of 1hr painting and gesture studies in porażka 227-234! Finally finished grinding primitive shapes and moved to movie studies. In this case "Lighthouse", "The third man" and "Seven Samurai". (cool movies btw, can recommend) 1/2
positive · AI labelView post →Akira Kurosawa on the set of his masterpiece, Seven Samurai (1954). #classic #movie #cinema
neutral · AI labelView post →Rebel Moon tries to do Seven Samurai but doesn't understand it as well as A Bug's Life, a movie for 6-year-olds
neutral · AI labelView post →Recommendations for samurai films?. I've enjoyed some of Akira Kurosawa's works (Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Ran, Seven Samurai, Rashoman), and The Hidden Fortress is on my list, but I'd like to hear any of your suggestions for samurai cinema.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite black & white movies? Here's what I feel this week. - Seven Samurai. Can't beat it really. - Port of shadows. A recent watch that I quite enjoyed. - Virgin Spring. Hard to choose a Bergman. - Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Silent film I've seen the most. - Tokyo drifter. Yeah!!
positive · AI labelView post →Really good movie, but why call it “Netflix’s”? That’s just the channel it’s playing on. They didn’t produce it, don’t give them credit. We don’t talk about “Criterion’s Seven Samurai” or “Turner Classic Movies’s Casablanca”.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Seven Samurai is a Masterclass in frame composition, camera movement, and blocking the actors to add depth to every shot. The themes in this film have inspired films from Westerns to Tarantino for decades.
positive · AI labelView post →guy who has only seen A Bug’s Life, watching his second movie Seven Samurai:
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your favorite Akira Kurosawa movie?. I've been slowly working through Kurosawa's movies, and I thought this could be an interesting discussion since there are so many of them. I just finished *Yojimbo*, and it was fantastic. It pulls you into the story of a ronin who comes to town where two rival gangs are feuding, and he plays both sides off of each other. I really enjoyed how the relationship between the tavern owner and the ronin developed through the movie. I think my favorite…
neutral · AI labelView post →BOTD 3/23/1910: One of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Akira Kurasowa. Creating visual & thematic masterpieces thru decades, covered almost every genre with skill & precision. Four Faves (but honestly, impossible to choose): 52 Ikiru 54 Seven Samurai 63 High & Low 85 Ran #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →I think Seven Samurai is a good movie hit like if you agree
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Seven Samurai last night for the first time. Everything about this film was beyond excellent, wish I’d given it a watch years ago. Following this up with The Hidden Fortress and The Magnificent Seven
positive · AI labelView post →Finally, some good news. Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) grossed $19,000 in its first 3 days at Film Forum NYC. Considering the length of the film, the number of screenings, and the seating capacity, that's gotta be a sell out (or close to it) at every show. collider.com/seven-samura... #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Better than Seven Samurai. Maybe I was all wrong about this movie.
negative · AI labelView post →The British Film Institute will be releasing "SEVEN SAMURAI" on 4K Ultra HD on October 21.. > One of the greatest films of all time, **Akira Kurosawa’s *Seven Samurai*** has influenced the work of directors from George Lucas to Steven Spielberg, and spawned remakes, most notably John Sturges’ acclaimed The Magnificent Seven. > > When 16th-century farmers whose village is repeatedly attacked by merciless bandits ask an elderly, masterless samurai (Takashi Shimura) for help, offering nothing but…
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a pretty in depth discussion of this exact question on the Criterion SEVEN SAMURAI DVD commentary track and the conclusion is that SEVEN SAMURAI is the *2nd* movie to ever use this structure and THE ASPHAULT JUNGLE is the first. bsky.app/profile/vitu...
neutral · AI labelView post →they sort of did this with one episode of Mando but my dream Star Wars film is Seven Samurai With Jedi in some nebulous Old Republic era unconnected to the Skywalker Saga
neutral · AI labelView post →I just rewatched Kurosawa's 1954 film The Seven Samurai (for about the 17th time). Now that's an "action movie" with great writing that summarises grand themes into the simplest gestures, every single shot is a masterpiece in light, shade and depth, and it has epic characterisations.
positive · AI labelView post →You know who had good picks in Criterion Closet? Ryan Coogler. Who else gonna have Malcolm X and Seven Samurai on same list? In general, as soon as he talks about film I’m listening. Black Panther “Casino Brawl” scene breakdown. Sinners film formats & aspect ratios breakdown. He’s so nerdy & sweet.
neutral · AI labelView post →I always recommend people just bite the bullet and watch Seven Samurai. It's an action movie, guys. It's got jokes!! Like, actually a lot of them! Toshiro Mifune plays a scoundrel-type.
positive · AI labelView post →in this essay i will describe how Seven Samurai and Freddy Got Fingered are, at their essences, the same film
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #94 "The Magnificent Seven" (John Sturges/1960) Awesome retelling of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Outstanding cast for an outstanding film! Highly recommended, check it out!
neutral · AI labelView post →1954 Japanese movie poster for Akira Kurosawa’s masterful “The Seven Samurai”.
neutral · AI labelView post →BOTD 3/23/1910: One of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Akira Kurasowa. Creating visual & thematic masterpieces thru decades, covered almost every genre with equal skill & precision. Fave 4 📽 (Honesty, impossible to choose): 52 Ikiru 54 Seven Samurai 63 High & Low 85 Ran #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s always fascinating to see what individual countries focus on when marketing a movie. UK: The obvious Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven comparison France: A classic movie poster with the buxom spaceship Nell drawing the eye Germany: Sybil Danning in space armour!
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished Seven Samurai just now and it's one of the few films to give me goosebumps at the end. Incredible bit of film making. Love it.
positive · AI labelView post →People often ask me what I would do with a billion dollars?*¹ The obvious answer is remaking "Seven Samurai" shot for shot but with Muppets. Bruce McCorkindale's art gives a hint of how wonderful and important this film would be. *¹((They never ask me this.) Via @brucemccorkindale.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Seven Samurai (1954) -- Director: Akira Kurosawa. https://letterboxd.com/film/seven-samurai/
neutral · AI labelView post →love a movie title that tells me how many guys will be in it. Seven Samurai? terrific. I bet when the movie starts there are fewer than seven samurai present. I bet there will be an urgent need for more samurai. I bet I know how we spend act two
neutral · AI labelView post →Mallrats: At least 5x funnier than the film itself Seven Samurai: pored over this as much as the film itself The recent Barry Jenkins commentaries on The American Underground are some of the best I’ve ever heard
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