However, there is one classic film with a three-and-a-half-hour runtime that even modern audiences can agree doesn't waste a ...

Seven Samurai is still exciting as an action movie, and the dramatic core resonates to this day, too.The perfect screenplay ...

Director Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 heroes-on-a-mission movie 'Seven Samurai,' which starred Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, returns to U.S. theaters this summer in a new 4K restoration.

Let me get one thing out of the way: There are way more than seven swords in this movie.Tsui Hark’s wuxia spin on the Seven Samurai-like is adapted from a book, but the influence of Kurosawa’s ...

For many of its admirers, “Seven Samurai” has likewise been a kind of pursuit. It’s not that Kurosawa’s movie is so elusive — it’s a fairly straightforward tale that states its meaning ...

But “Seven Samurai” did not mimic the western so much as revitalize it. Hollywood’s 1960 remake, “The Magnificent Seven,” was itself a watershed movie; the two great western directors of ...

This image released by Janus Films shows Toshiro Mifune in a scene from the 1954 film "Seven Samurai." (Janus Films via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th ...

This image released by Janus Films shows Toshir Mifune in a scene from the 1954 film "Seven Samurai." (Janus Films via AP) NEW YORK – Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still ...

NEW YORK — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still ...

For many of its admirers, “Seven Samurai” has likewise been a kind of pursuit. It’s not that Kurosawa’s movie is so elusive — it’s a fairly straightforward tale that states its meaning ...