Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai) is Japanese film masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa. I watched this movie in 2015, 61 years after the release. Old movie, indeed, but great thing will last as the time passed, won't it?
I expected I would watch an epic colossal battle of Samurai and those seven samurai would be the heroes who saved the day. Instead, Seven Samurai was a simple yet honest movie (and this is the reason that this movie is so remarkable). It showed true condition in the old Japanese social life without any flowery plot:
bandits tried to rob the farmers, farmers suffered and seeked for help, and seven masterless samurai (ronin) helped them for a bowl of rice. With its non-complex plot, it succeed to introduce us about Japanese culture through the natural atmosphere built.
bandits tried to rob the farmers, farmers suffered and seeked for help, and seven masterless samurai (ronin) helped them for a bowl of rice. With its non-complex plot, it succeed to introduce us about Japanese culture through the natural atmosphere built.
The movie run for almost 4 hours. However, Kurosawa didn't bore us. He brought us deep into the movie, not only let us to see it, but also to feel it through the characters. In this movie, each character has their own personality and all is naturally potrayed - no overly cruel guy or annoying joker. As the result, we could imagine they live nowadays and relate those characters on our own daily life - and that's how we can feel the movie. Kikuchiyo (played by enormous Toshiro Mifune), for example. He was the funny guy with the dark background. We always have that friend who act funny without any reason, right?
For classic movie lovers, this movie is totally recommended!
P.S. The sad thing was I googled the casts and all of them has already passed away :(
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