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    Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay...
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    vendetta, is an historical event in Japan in which a band of rōnin (lordless samurai) avenged the death of their master on 31 January 1703. The incident has...
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  • Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese film. Seven Samurai may also refer to: Seven Samurai 20XX, a 2004 video game based on the film 7 Samurai (artist), a...
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  • Seven Samurai 20XX (20XX 七人の侍, 20XX: Shichinin no Samurai) is a PlayStation 2 game released by Sammy Studios in 2004. Its story and concept are based...
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    Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven). The ensemble cast includes Yul...
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  • Samurai 7 (stylized as SAMURAI 7) is a 2004 anime television series produced by Gonzo and based on the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai. The seven...
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    meaning "sword fighting" films, denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler...
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  • Afro Samurai dōjinshi into a two-volume manga. Tor Books and Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the title and published it under their new Tor/Seven Seas...
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    Rōnin (redirect from Ronin (samurai))
    dissolute person') was a samurai who had no lord or master and in some cases, had also severed all links with his family or clan. A samurai becomes a rōnin upon...
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  • same name, which itself was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent...
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    Samurai (侍) or bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]) were members of the warrior class in Japan. Originally warriors who served the Kuge and imperial court in the late...
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  • male influence in his upbringing, Sibylla plays him Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, which he comes to know by heart. The next portion of the novel describes...
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  • 2018, by Johnny Kitagawa, and named after Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. They are known for their dance acumen, band-style performances, and...
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    Akira Kurosawa (category Samurai film directors)
    highly regarded (and often adapted) films, including Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo...
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    which Mifune won the San Marco Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), and Yojimbo...
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  • – as A Bug's Life (1998) references both Seven Samurai (1954) and its Hollywood remake The Magnificent Seven (1960) – nor movies that adopt, adapt, or...
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  • (Charles Dickens), The Guns of Navarone (Alistair McLean), Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, James Bond (Ian Fleming), Jaws, Star Wars: A New Hope...
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  • names. Seven Swords was used as the opening film to the 2005 Venice Film Festival and as a homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. In the...
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  • action film The Magnificent Seven, itself based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954). The film was directed by Paul Wendkos and produced by Vincent...
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    vision. For example, for Seven Samurai, he created six notebooks with (among many other things) detailed biographies of the samurai, including what they wore...
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    of early catalog titles such as Amarcord (1973), Brazil (1985) and Seven Samurai (1954). Originally, Criterion released art, genre and mainstream movies...
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  • 2022-05-26. Galbraith, p. 30 Kurosawa 1982, p. 144 Galbraith, p. 63 Seven Samurai, DVD featurette: My Life in Cinema (Waga Eiga Jinsei): Interview of...
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    began his career as a stunt actor in samurai films and he acted in a small role in the 1954 film Seven Samurai, portraying a bandit slain by master swordsman...
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  • portrayed by Takashi Shimura in the 1954 film Seven Samurai. Adams, a Cajun, is the laconic leader of a band of seven gunfighters. He always wears black, smokes...
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    lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954). He played Professor Kyohei Yamane in Ishirō Honda's original...
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    acted in films as well. Notable performances include Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yoshitarō Nomura's Stakeout. In addition, he starred in television...
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  • Sholay (category Works based on Seven Samurai)
    film's plot was loosely styled after Akira Kurosawa's 1954 samurai cinema film, Seven Samurai. Sholay is a defining example of the Dacoit Western film,...
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  • Bara No Soretsu (a.k.a. Funeral Parade of Roses) and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and Red Beard, and Kihachi Okamoto's...
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  • Mifune: The Last Samurai, also known as Mifune, is a 2015 biographical documentary directed and co-written by Steven Okazaki. It chronicles the life of...
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    Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai where he is seen for a few seconds as a samurai walking through town. Nakadai's role in Seven Samurai was technically his...
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