SEVEN SAMURAI Film Analysis | Why The Ronin Worked For Free
Seven ronin helping farmers defend their crops from bandits sounds simple but the nuances in Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic go well beyond its simple premise which I’ll explain with Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ and Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War.’
Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese Samurai epic co-written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
The film takes place during the Sengoku Period of Japanese history and follows 7 masterless samurai–or ronin as they are called–who are hired for the price of 3 meals a day by farmers to defend their harvest from bandits. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katō, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, and Isao Kimura.
0:00 intro
3:58 honor
9:06 laziness
10:12 disunity
13:06 forgetfulness
17:19 The Godfather
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