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Seven Samurai
VHS £15.99
Film Description Superlative adventure film in which seven warriors defend a village from ferocious bandits. With comedy, pathos, tension and some of the finest action sequences ever filmed, this is simply magnificent cinema. It was of course later remade as 'The Magnificent Seven'.
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DVD Extras Digitally remastered and restored from a new print, commentary over key scenes and booklet with film notes and extra stills.
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Review by Adam Linzey on 5th May 2005 For many, Seven Samurai represents one of the first stepping-stones on the way to a deeper appreciation of cinema. Seven Samurai is not for everybody – if you want inane stylized violence seek out the Baby Cart or Zatoichi series. But, if you find yourself reaching for something more beautiful, more real, and ultimately more human - then Seven Samurai is for you. Someone once said that, “Seven Samurai is the yardstick against which all action films should be measured” and few truer words have been spoken about a film. It has the greatest depth of all action films simply because it uses everyone of those 190, or so, minutes to truly develop it’s characters. Seven Samurai will take you by surprise; at first the film appears to be moving too slowly, but by the end there is the realization that it was you yourself who was moving too fast. Nothing is forced - the story simply grows around the viewer; one minute you are in your living room, the next you are trying to save the village from bandits. Objectively, this film is a cinematic masterpiece that will continue to rank among the best. Subjectively, I haven’t yet found a greater film – for me it ranks number one!
Review by Chris Asiama on 11th October 2005 This was another fantastic offering from a master director, I relished the epic scale of the film and the fact that Kurosawa was just as concerned with the plights of the ordinary characters as well as the big battle sequences.
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