Seven Samurai
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Magnificent Sevens … myth, math and aftermath … Part 3
Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) was the inspiration for M7 1960. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mw6LyyoeGE] Often regarded as one of the greatest films of all time – and the first “Action Film” “It has remained highly influential, often seen as one of the most “remade, reworked, referenced” films in cinema. (Wikipedia) Awards and nominations Venice Film Festival (1954) Winner…
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East / West remakes … a film tradition …
There’s Remakes … and then there’s this: In Yurusarezaru mono – a Japanese remake/adaptation of Clint Eastwood‘s iconic Western, Unforgiven (1992) we discover a cinematic tradition of Remakes that goes back a ways … pardner. Legendary Westerns film Director John Sturges‘* The Magnificent Seven (1960) is well known to have borrowed from Japanese Director/Film maker Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. _____________________________________________________ In fact,…