Seven Samurai - Movie Review 

that made me feel real sad, even though gave me a sense of acomplishment, by them ending the conflict in the farmer's stead

In my subtitle, it was the PEASANTS won, not farmers xD

"The Victory belongs to those peasants, not to us."

@@Dravianpn02 Exactly :)

@@duramirez using the word farmers versus peasants, changes one of the many themes of class and poverty in the film. By adding farmers, it doesnt separate the samurai and farmers. But adding peasants, does because its the lowest class winning their own battle by coming together over the upper class. Means more that way instead of just farmers and Kurosawa wouldve seen that. Normally I wouldn't have cared about the misquote because it happens. But this is my all time favorite film and the exposition is intentionally placed and worded for a reason, like , the framing and character positioning in Harakiri by Kobayshi. Class themes.

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What ranks in your top 5?

Seven Samurai, a B&W film made with a shoestring budget is an epic adventure movie that can rival Lord of the Rings (700 million dollar budget) !!!

Magnificent Seven (the original film with Yule Bryner & Steve McQueen) was pretty good, too.

@@MWRJET hell yeah!

yes. the movies alone is in the back of my mind forever.. especially the theme goes with it.

@@riquestrong9496 you must be fun at parties

Hoosler ??? U have no idea lol

That scene is unreal. You are not alone, I promise.

(SPOILER) Plus how he sacrificed his own life for the villagers without hesitation, he really saw himself in their shoes and risked it all for them

That scene hit hard

That scene hit hard

Also Katsushiro when he’s desperately asking “Where are the bandits? Where are the bandits?” And then Kambei yells at him “They’re all dead!” And then that howl that Katsushiro lets out as he sinks to his knees. It’s heart rending.

Watched it just now. Couldn't believe how badass the shots were, and the ending was flawless.

About to watch in a few hours, I’ll comment when I watched it

Forgot to comment but great movie

@@GreenDragon1234 ikr? I watched it at the same time (+-) u did and it's so fucking genious (in all posible ways, from misuc to the message)

@Razh 80 Hell yes Agreed!

And thematic depth that makes it an "art-house" classic (though I usually don't like those labels).

And pure artistry

shut up bro

Felt like 4

Thought the same thing. Some modern movies bore me, even if they have explosions every 10minutes. I'm not used to watch old movies so i was pretty surprised how much tension seven samurai caused o.O

i know im in the extreme minority when i say I didn't like the movie and that it felt really long.

@@harryhaller9670 That's not all modern movies. shut up lol

I have seen his illustration works. They were colored scenes from the movie. He was a painter.

I think that's probably the best way to approach any movie. The hell with what others say. Watch 15 minutes and see if it hooks you. I first stumbled across SS way back in the dark ages on a B&W TV while getting ready for bed on a Sunday night, and I was just knocked out. I was a HS freshman or something and I was still entranced. Can't count the times I've seen it since.

@@greggrobinson5116 I think I would be missing out on many great films if I just waited 15 minutes to see if they hook me. Specially when the subject is slow-paced, contemplative dramas, which can be an acquired taste. To be clear, I'm not saying that anyone should force themselves to watch a whole film if they truly are not feeling it at that moment. Often it's better to try another day with a different, patient mood.

Don’t forget No Clint Eastwood either

and without seven samurai, no john wick.

@@Roarrior. and john woo!

Yes! And an eerie facial resemblance to Bill Wyman, the Rolling Stones' original bassist. Calmly sinister.

Why so serious bro? Hahaha i like Kikushio and his crazy style!

He was so cool. From his duel introduction to calmly disappearing into the brush to return the next morning with a rifle, then he just lays down for a nap. Incredible character.

@@z5jahn I loved how he actually had emotion too when the younger Samurai gushed about him lol so many modern shows would have taken an "I'm so cool" approach instead.

@@Mr___f “you are an amazing person!”

he meant comic book movie

we're talking about movies.... that's certainty enough

Echoingdolphin but comics are not superheroes, but a media and they made superheroes famous in comics. Plus the guy should write superhero movies not comics because it doesn't make sense in context.

GabeFromKyushu nice contradiction there

GabeFromKyushu I spoke with him and he said he meant comic books. So yeah he's wrong.

did the person die or something?

theFilmCritic No, the guys who ran the channel moved on for their other endeavors.

René Jiménez yeah its brilliant, its probably one of the videos that sparked my intrest in understanding the details of film making. 😊

shame they don't create any new content :(

Christopher Gomez Nice

It’s flawless IMO.

But wow, interesting.

Haruo Nakajima's dedication at the Oscars was the biggest plot twist of my life and I loved it

Thanks for the interesting info!

Ben Wasserman my top 3 are Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, and Fight Club

Ben Wasserman he doesn't like it, so it'll be interesting to hear his view

Ben Wasserman Mine are GoodFellas, the Shawshank Redemption, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

I'll never understand T2 over Terminator, but it's a damn good flick as well

The_Jackal Chris Stuckmann doesnt like 2001? Why?

I bet you'd really enjoy Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat if you haven't seen it already.

12ealDeal I have not but I'll definitely seek it out. I saw Psycho and Rear Window and enjoyed them both.

It's got a similar setup and theme, just with the master's own methods at work.

Jan Strydom and also Vertigo

Jan Strydom and north by northwest

haha, seven samurai is my all time favorite film and have already watched it about 20 times

@@anjelomichelangelo7726 in a span of ?

@@sameerhafeez7029 yes. sometimes I start from middle to look at any specific scene, and I cant stop watching until the end. then I start from beginning till middle. :D

@@anjelomichelangelo7726 how many months did it you to watch it 20 times?

@@sameerhafeez7029 first I watched this film about 6 years ago, then I watched it second day :D :D . sometimes 2 times in month. 6 year is enough time to rewatch film 20 times. I am filmmaker myself, so I learning something new in every watch.

well... I mean you've grown up watching movies with subtitles so its natural for you. We've grown up not watching movies with subtitles (most of us anyway) so it feels unnatural. seems like a pretty easy concept to understand...

Americans will complain about anything when they have to step outside their comfort zone

eh thats a trait you can attach to the majority of the world

Nick Of All Trades Europeans love to hate on Americans, don't bother with them

damn euro trash. jk pretty much all of europe is phenomenal except the netherlands. that place is shit

Incredible game!

Great game

Such a beautiful game, I love it. I'm lost in the world of Tsushima

- You have no honor! - And you are slave to it!

It's so inspired on Kurosawa, it's crazy beautiful.

He does one pre-70s movie review every month this year. He reviewed "12 Angry Men" back in January and "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly" in Feburary.

Teresa Rod Chris started with 12 Angry Men in January

Zombitious He's only reviewing films pre 1970

Zombitious Mulholland Drive is so good I love it💖

or Lost Highway

The Elephant man

Would've been fun to see something like that alongside TP last year

And...

I got to see it in 35mm once. It was a privilege.

I saw this in 35mm with a packed crowd, people gave it an ovation at the end.

@@Hannibal082 it was absolutely brilliant of course.

@@ellisfilms5821 Glad you enjoyed it😊😊🤗

I spent summer 2018 doing that 😋.

Pablo Hernández And the freaking Germans. Most of them haven't seen a non-dubbed film their entire lives, ever. Because everything gets dubbed before it's being released.

That is not true. YES, almost every movie here gets dubbed. However many people as well watch the original movies because they prefer that. Cinemas often will show both versions at different times. - For me however it depends on the movie/ series. With some the German voice actually fits the character better (due to being deeper for example) and so in those cases imho might be actually be preferrable to the original. It is to be noted as well, that German dubbing is very good. It is done by professional voice actors, a different person is picked for each role in a movie, and the studios make sure to Lip sync very well. So it really is more like the (better cases) of voice acting in triple A games, less like the bad dubbing of older movies into eastern european or asian languages, where usaully only one man and one woman speak all roles.

Pablo Hernández Here in Brazil, every movie is dubbed and few cinemas show movies With subtitles. Among more hardcore cinephiles here, there is a huge prejudice against subtitles, but the general, casual public, generally hates subtitles.

Well, that's wrong, for example, here in Brazil just a few amount of people watch english language movies withput subtitles, even who knows english here(also, less than half of the population) watch them with subtitles, and most of people here prefer dubbed movies. And also, in Catalunya, Spain they only start tostudy english language when they are eleven.

I always thought France was the worst with dubbing. Whenever I'm there I can't find anything on TV without French dubbing. Here in The Netherlands we just put subtitles on everything which I am very happy about.

Yes, 8 1/2!!!

PixelRelatedismyname I wouldn't put it in my top 25 of all time but for pre 70s it's in my top 10.

Car Stuff if it's not in your all time 25 but it's in the pre 70s top 10 maybe watch more pre 70s films

Tais M I don't understand why having bicycle thieves in my top 10 pre 70s and not in my all time warrants that fact that I don't watch pre 70s movies, but post 70's I do prefer just for the 1970s with films like Stalker, the mirror, the conversation. But all film is subjective, that's why bicycle thieves is in my top 10 of pre 70s and the seventh seal isn't where for some it'd be opposite.

Bergman was a fucking master.

Persona is also a masterpiece. Scenes from a marriage is also one of his most under appreciated even though it was 1973 and is illegible for this series.

Cries and Whispers yo!

2001: A space odyssey is my all-time favorite film. But The Seventh Seal is also my all-time favorite film.

Cries and Whispers

Rothur The Paladin YASSS!! Mifune is the BAWSSS!!

Rothur The Paladin Classic

watch Ran and High and Low

Throne of Blood, followed by Ikiru.

Throne of blood is probably my favorite or Rushmore

That is if you're into films. Chances are, if you're watching this review, you already are into films. I wish comic book and pop culture fans would get into older films.

Great Film Matheus.

David Lean, Howard Hawks, John Ford & Akira Kurosawa. 4 men who truly understand scope.

The dubbing of Goblin Slayer is pretty good...also Gunsmith Cats...though I know that there are some horrid dubs out there.

@@Darek_B52 Like Bible Black.

@@xavierfranco5800 like as in good or bad?

The dubbed versions are laughable. But also - the subtitled versions are not all great. The older versions use a more archaic vernacular (eg: calling the bandits "brigands") and are not enjoyable to read, as they come off as not getting the point across properly in their translations. The newer translations are better in retaining our investment in the dialogue and themes.

See I'm one of those normal people that prefers my foreign movies subbed and my anime dubbed.

Karen Ingram because it IS important!!!

AND FANTASTIC MR. FOX

ZachAttackPro - minecraft videos its great saw it today!

"Have you heard the rumor?"

Crew Channel What rumor?

Justin Peterson Ran was amazing. A true masterpiece.

Justin Peterson Throne of Blood is also pretty amazing

My favourite too.

My ranking of his films.. 1. Ikiru 2. Seven Samurai 3. Rashömon 4. Ran 5. Yojimbo 6. High and Low 7. Throne of Blood 8. Sanjuro 9. The Hidden Fortress 10. Red Beard 11. Dersu Uzala

Ran was one of Kurosawa's few films in color and the fact that it was in color made a big difference for me.

I say one per week

Greippi10 They did make a recent Hollywood remake - The Magnificent Seven.

Hah I had no idea. Looks very... average.

They did remake it - as an anime, 'Samurai 7'. And of course, there is the Magnificent Seven franchise...

The Magnificent Seven is a good movie. Even Kurosawa liked it.

Offensive Shylocking Except you didn’t have to read much subtitles and it was in COLOR.

VictoryNYC You can watch and read the subs at the same time without it tasking your brain at all. In Finland 2 subs in theatres like in Estonia as well, fin/swe for Finland and est/rus for Estonia. That’s three languages I can process at the same time, if needed. Although of course your’re paying more attention to your first language in written form while taking in the actor’s intonation and tone of voice. Plus I don’t really see an issue with the colour missing. Sin City was mostly in b&w. Instead as a movie buff I absolutely detest dubbing since it takes away from the original portrayal by the actor/actress. Except in animation where it might give a different portrayal which is equally good - case in point being the Genie in the Finnish dub of Aladdin. I love me some Robin Williams but Vesa-Matti Loiri’s portrayal is pure gold, check it out.

KARNAG3 when he's finished reviewing pre-70s & post 70s flicks.

Andrew West YES! My favourite film of all time!

Yeah, that's also Steven Spielberg's favorite film.

Andrew West Yes!

One of my all time favorites. Its one of Spielberg's many inspirations.

YES, YES, YES! Such a very very good film!

yes, please Chris.

Vertigo is a better Hitchcock film. If not the best.

Birds And Vertigo are great movies but Psycho is Hitchcock's masterpiece

definetly. 1-Psycho 2-Rear Window 3-Vertigo

Vertigo is Hitchcock's best film and one of the best films of all time.

A bookworm here, films need more attention, you have to actively press pause instead of just stopping reading to get a drink or even a few breaths. I've read Terry Pratchett's Jingo in one day, but still, these longer films (i.e. above 3 hours), like Once Upon a Time in America, Seven Samurai are more challenging to watch. Or, you have to plan your pauses, or it's gonna lose you.

Bah! Just bring a bottle to piss in, or let your bladder explode! :) I don't see how sitting at home for 3 hours is a difficult thing, unless the person is Adderall-adled or retarded and incapable of sitting still and focusing. If they can't handle Yojimbo, they're fucking morons... it's not like committing to Immanuel Kant's 'A Critique of Pure Reason', which is as close to torture as any reading experience I've had, and far more traumatic than the Necronomicon, anthrobibliopegy aside. But it's true, people don't like leaving their comfort zone... unless it's for the latest Disney-fied Star Wars or Marvel super-sequel with a 9-figure budget (and I do like a lot of the Marvel stuff... just not enough to suffer the cineplex). Personally. I hate theaters. Film is NOT a social thing, and I have friends I'll never see a film with - on Bluray - because they just can't shut the fuck up; theaters are full of munching, blathering retards I'd take pains to avoid, so paying for the lights-off quarantine in a room full of knobs... fuck that. Besides, visual storytelling doesn't require an IMAX sensory assault & 3D gimmickry unless it secretly sucks. Like Avatar, the highwater-mark for over-rated shit. And every Star Wars film since the eighties. But that's just me... a contrarion dick who thinks Episodic film series - from The Wire, The Sopranos, Rome, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood & Westworld, to The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Rick & Morty, & Bob's Burgers - are the slow, painful death of the cineplex. Get off my lawn, you punk kids!

EisNeiN You. I like you. Great job.

Václav Fejt Well, reading can be much more arduous when you're reading a book like Clarrisa by Samuel Rivhardson, the longest book in the English language, with more than a million words. But it's very satisfying on completion.

I'm dyslexic. I like to read and I like to watch movies. I don't like doing them at the same time.

1997residente now thats some good info cheers

Yeah. A lot of the 1 on 1 Jedi fights play out like Samurai duels. Attacks tend to be slower, but more calculated. Well, until the prequels.

1997residente well their many homages in star wars like westerns, Lawrence of Arabia, WWII flicks, serial science fiction movies, etc.

Compare the Samurai armor, especially the masks with Darth Vaders. Yes, we have to thank Japanese history and cinema for one of the greatest movie villains of all time.

Jar Jar was based on Kikuchiyo.