Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa (Revised Edition)

Description: The Seven Samurai by Akira KurosawaEnglish translation and introduction by Donald Richie Modern film script series Introduction, Credits and Cast, Script, Afterword by Tony Richardson In Seven Samurai, his most famous film, Akira Kurosawa takes a theme as familiar and standardized to Japanese audiences as the Western is to us and treats it with a freshness and a sensitivity to texture, tempo and psychological truth that gives new excitement and meaning to the traditional form. The theme has a ferocious simplicity. The inhabitants of a small village, yearly invaded by bandits, decide at last to do something to save themselves and their crops. They gather together a band of roaming samurai to defend them. With a wealth of detail and rich characterization Kurosawa unfolds the drama of that defence, the varying motives of the samurai - pity, devotion, adventurousness, or simply hunger - and the weakness and ingratitude of the villagers. The film explores their inter- relationships with the insight and psychological depth which one has come to expect of Kurosawa. Technically it is a brilliant achievement, particularly in the sweeping, almost balletic action of the long battle scenes which take up the latter half of the film. Its emotional impact is stunning, for Kurosawa deals with truly universal themes. Seven Samurai illustrates the condition of human life, the ceaseless struggle of the weak and humble against their predators in every age and land. It is an epic of the human spirit and a landmark in the history of the cinema. This edition of Seven Samurai is based on Kurosawa's shooting script amplified into an accurate shot-by-shot description of the action and dialogue of the film. Donald Richie introduces this volume, which contains nearly 200 frame and production stills carefully keyed to the text. Lorrimer Publishing"Revised edition 1984"Paperback‎227 pagesISBN-10‎: 0-85647-086-4

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