It might ordinarily sound like hyperbole to come right out and say that a movie is one of the very best of all time, but something as grand, timeless, and exciting as Seven Samurai deserves ...

Production of "Seven Samurai" coincided with an equally elemental movie, allegorising Japan's nuclear martyrdom, "Godzilla" - both at the same studio, Toho. In "Seven Samurai," a village regularly ...