The movie Sichinin no Samurai, known in English as The Seven Samurai, was a Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa. It starts out in a small village in 16th century, isolated in fear by bandits that will steal their crops needed to lead a prosperous life. The village seeks out seven samurai to protect them, after hearing of how this worked for other villages. I downloaded this movie a month or two ago, but just until recently I watched it, after being recommended films by Akira Kurosawa from a friend. His movies have apparently been influenced by Shakespeare (I would not know, having only seen one of his movies), and his movies have influenced other great movies, such as A Fistful of Dollars and Star Wars. So in theory, Star Wars is basically A Midsummer Night's Dream in space (just kidding).
Shichinin no Samurai was a very good film showing the struggles of the peasants and samurai: the peasants with their bandit problem, and the samurai having to hold off the bandits from the village. I am glad that my friend told be about Akira Kurosawa, and there will be surely more of his movies on my movie list.
Rating: 9.0/10
Shichinin no Samurai was a very good film showing the struggles of the peasants and samurai: the peasants with their bandit problem, and the samurai having to hold off the bandits from the village. I am glad that my friend told be about Akira Kurosawa, and there will be surely more of his movies on my movie list.
Rating: 9.0/10
