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Again and again, Kurosawa sends a dark thrill through his audience with a touch of sensuous physical reality.
Kurosawa's film is a model of long-form construction, ably fitting its asides and anecdotes into a powerful suspense structure that endures for all of the film's 208 minutes.
Besides the well-manned battlescenes, the pic has a good feeling for characterization and time.
Seven Samurai is an unforgettable masterpiece -- the work of one of the world's greatest filmmakers at the height of his powers.
[Kurosawa] has loaded his film with unusual and exciting physical incidents and made the whole thing graphic in a hard, realistic western style.
The archetypal action classic.
Famous epic with stylish violence and subtitles.
Synthesizes the traditions of the samurai narrative and the American western to create an intimate epic with deeply felt ground-level consequences. [Blu-ray]
You may think you've seen Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai before, but watching Criterion's Blu-ray is like viewing this masterpiece and all its glorious moving parts for the first time.
Kurosawa's intention of making his first period film "entertaining enough to eat" is brought to that palpable condition through [Toshiro] Mifune's endlessly watchable peasant warrior.
...suffers from an absurdly overlong running time that often threatens to negate its more overtly positive attributes...
Arguably the most influential epic ever made, Kurosawa's 1954 film is a veritable textbook on how to shoot, cut, frame and present violence on screen; Sergio Leone, Arthur Penn, Sam Peckinpah, Michael Mann and many others owe huge debut to the master
The Criterion DVD edition includes new transfer of Kurosawa's masterpiece, new English subtitles, interview with the Japanese maestro, and making-of-docu.
Kurosawa's three-hour jidai-geki epic can be counted among the greatest of all battle movies ... a majestic tale of heroism, sacrifice and death.
The movie sucks you in so thoroughly you're actually pissed when you have to swap in a new disc during intermission.
Crosses over from raw entertainment to lovable trashy art.
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