However, there is one classic film with a three-and-a-half-hour runtime that even modern audiences can agree doesn't waste a minute: Seven Samurai (1954), arguably the magnum opus of one of the ...

There are, unsurprisingly, seven interesting and unique samurai who fight together in Seven Samurai, but which of the bunch is the best overall?

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 ...

Uncredited. This image released by Janus Films shows Toshirô Mifune in a scene from the 1954 film "Seven Samurai." (Janus Films via AP) ...

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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 ...

Seven Samurai is frequently cited as one of the greatest films ever made and was even voted the greatest foreign-language ...

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 ...

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 ...

This summer, timed to the 1954 film’s 70th anniversary, a new restoration of “Seven Samurai” is playing in theaters beginning Wednesday in New York and expanding around the country July 12.