If the golden age of the samurai film was the 1950s and 60s – and the likes of Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Harakiri suggest fairly incontrovertibly that it was – then 11 Rebels is a welcome blast from ...
NEW YORK — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To ...
Art travels, inspires, and transforms, and the relationship between Western and samurai films is a testament to this.