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\u00a9Courtesy of Toho Studios<\/p>\n

\u201cTHE FINEST JAPANESE FILM EVER MADE.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2014 Donald Richie<\/b><\/p>\n

TOSHIRO\u0304 MIFUNE STARS IN AKIRA KUROSAWA\u2019S\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

SEVEN SAMURAI<\/b><\/p>\n

U.S. PREMIERE OF 70th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION<\/b><\/p>\n

RESTORED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN 4K<\/b><\/p>\n

JULY 5 \u2013 18 AT FILM FORUM<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Seven<\/p>\n

\u00a9Courtesy of Toho Studios<\/p>\n

A new 4K restoration of\u00a0Akira Kurosawa<\/a>\u2019s epic masterpiece,\u00a0SEVEN SAMURAI<\/b> (1954), starring the legendary Toshiro Mifune<\/a> and Takashi Shimura<\/a>, will run at Film Forum<\/a> from Friday, July 5 through Thursday, July 18.<\/p>\n

In 16th century Japan, as proud samurai end up as masterless, wandering ronin and farmers are prostrate under the heel of marauding bandits, a village patriarch counsels resistance. How? Hire samurai, “hungry samurai.” Under the calm leadership of Takashi Shimura (Kurosawa regular, star of\u00a0Ikiru<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Godzilla<\/i><\/strong>), that magic number enlist for a war against 40 mounted bandits, winding up at the most hair-raising battle ever filmed.<\/p>\n

Kurosawa’s orchestration of swords, spears, arrows, men, horses, rain, wind, and mud; blazing tracking shots; giant close ups; chiaroscuro lighting; telephoto lenses that put us underfoot as horses crash amid struggling men; deep focus shots that render the tip of a sword poking into the lens equally clear with scurrying figures fifty feet away, transitions that effortlessly whip us from scene to scene; and ensemble performances that give dimensionality to every character, topped by Toshiro Mifune’s eventual transition from manic goofball to tortured, self-hating tragic hero make SEVEN SAMURAI<\/strong> one of the most influential films of all time.<\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

Mifune arrived at Toho Studios in 1947 seeking a photographer\u2019s assistant job, when he was spotted by young contract director Akira Kurosawa. Thus began an artistic partnership that would produce some of the greatest masterpieces of world cinema, including\u00a0Rashomon<\/i><\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Throne of Blood<\/i><\/strong>,\u00a0The<\/i>\u00a0Hidden Fortress<\/i><\/strong>,\u00a0High and Low<\/strong>,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Yojimbo<\/i><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

By 1954, Kurosawa was already established as Japan\u2019s most celebrated director with reputation-cementing triumphs\u00a0Rashomon<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0(1950) and\u00a0Ikiru<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0(1952), and he worked closely again with screenwriting partner Shinobu Hashimoto to craft the screenplay from a five-hundred-page treatment inspired by their research into a farming village\u2019s true enlistment of samurai for protection against roving marauders.<\/p>\n

SEVEN SAMURAI<\/strong> was voted as the Best Japanese Film ever in the 1979 Kinema Junpo critics poll.<\/p>\n<\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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