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SEVEN SAMURAI: Origins and Influences OTTID:463061

Seven Samurai •

Samurai occupied a prominent place in Japanese film long before the celebrated heroes of Akira Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI. This 2006 documentary takes a close look at the history of the samurai and the influence of the samurai figure in cinema leading up to and culminating in Kurosawa’s masterpiece.

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