Seven Samurai is Kurosawa's and Japan's classic as well as being regarded as an all-time great beyond its nation's cinema. Part of appreciating Seven Samurai however as a film is not only admiring the quality performances, writing and directing but the hidden underlying message which it conveys and holds. Once analysed you then begin to realise that Seven Samurai is actually a well-thought and executed work of art truly and totally deserving its huge reputation.
Kurosawa's classic conveys the hidden story of 1954 Japan, showing the battle within society between a failing and falling military which had lost power, and a rising set of civilians and peasants who were gaining power. Seven Samurai proposes the idea of traditional beliefs being replaced by modern beliefs something contemporary to 1954 Japan as a much needed change was required and put in place after a war against America which resulted in destruction, mass death and defeat produced a huge paradigm shift which saw Japan become a much more westernised country. The farming village within Seven Samurai is used to act as a microcosm to Japan, making the important battle being about the interaction between the new arriving Samurai and the farmers; consequently this therefore makes the bandits nothing more than a plot device within the film. Throughout Seven Samurai we also see how accepting modern views and beliefs over traditional will lead to survival and better life, encouraging us to change and accept change rejecting the traditional Japanese proverb "the nail that stands up, must be hammered down".
The most frequent message conveyed through Seven Samurai is the role of military and more so how there is no longer a place or use for a military in contemporary 1954 Japan. There are two main scenes to show this as well as two main characters. Firstly Kyuzo, the most skilled and trained samurai out of the seven, and for that reason alone he is chosen to represent the military.
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"The Last Samurai" was one of the most accurate films depicting the ancient traditions of Japanese Samurai. ... Through his title, he finds work in Japan teaching non-Samurai how to fight effectively in war against their Samurai counterparts. Algren is then captured by Katsumoto, a Samurai, played by Ken Watanabe and learns about their many traditions and beliefs. ... What's miraculous about this film is that it precisely portrays the lifestyle of his captors, the Samurai more so than any other film. ... Zwick has just made up for the seven dollars I spent to see "Shakespeare in Love" and...
The story was made of seven different accounts from seven different individuals. ... Instead of showing seven accounts of the incident, Kurosawa chose to only show four. ... The samurai that I saw in the movie was not the typical kind of samurai that I know. ...
After their origins in Japan, Rinzai and Soto developed independently for about seven hundred years. ... Rinzai Zen became popular with the samurai - the warrior class and that influenced the development of Zen throughout the medieval Japanese society. ...
After their origins in Japan, Rinzai and Soto developed independently for about seven hundred years. ... Rinzai Zen became popular with the samurai - the warrior class and that influenced the development of Zen throughout the medieval Japanese society. ...
You often sit down to make a car that is cheap, or a piece of furniture that will only last for a couple years, but nobody ever sits down and says Hey let's make a bad movie!' (McCallum 10) George Lucas and special effects are synonymous. A movie without special effects would not be a movie. Special effects are meant to grab people's attention and keep them at the edge of their seats the whole time, making them feel that they are in the middle of the movie, an active part. The Academy Awards were never and incentive; the salary was an incentive. ...
In seven BC Augustus divided Rome into fourteen wards, each divided into precincts, responsible for fire protection, among other administrative and religious duties. After a bad fire in six BC, Augustus had expanded the city's fire brigade into vilgiles, consisting of seven squads, a thousand freedmen in each squad. ... In Japan in the seventeenth century the ruler had devised an police system in which each castle town had a military samurai warrior who served as town magistrate, judge, and chief of police. He appointed other samurai to serve as a patrolling police. ...
