Continuing my countdown of the last ten of 100 consecutive movie nights
Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and many more! This is an astonishingly epic action movie that set the standard for the genre for decades to come. It is hard to fully appreciate how innovative it was when it came out, as so many aspects of it (plot points, characters, structure, camera and editing techniques) have since been borrowed and reused many, many times. The entire genre of the ‘spaghetti western’ is pretty much just a retread of this film.
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