Seven Samurai

Name: Seven Samurai
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ISBN: 9780851709154

ISBN-10: 085170915X

ISBN-13: 9780851709154

Edition: 2002

Authors: Joan Mellen

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In Seven Samurai (1954), a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that evokes the cultural upheaval brought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism in the sixteenth century, echoing also the sweeping cultural changes occurring in the aftermath of the American Occupation. The plot is deceptively simple. A village of farmers is beleaguered by a horde of bandits. In desperation the farmers decide to hire itinerant samurai to protect their crops and people from the bandits. There had never been a Japanese film in which peasants hired samurai, or an evocation of the…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 2/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English