Regarding the question brought up about samurai and gunnery. They used guns actually all the way back from the 13th century where they were introduced to the first types of these weapons from China. Then later europeans introduced the musket, and the samurai both incorporated these weapons into their martial arts practices, and modified both weapons and bullets and techniques to use guntype weapons in extremely creative and sophisticated ways. So Alex is right that the samurai did not shy away from those weapons, but they treated them seriously as a tool and a craft that probably would inspire and be in line with serious special forces units of today.
I actually have a VHS two tape copy of this movie, which was a library rental at one time. I finally watched it all the way through because you all were going to review it. I can say the first hour was hard for me to get into, but after the first hour I was glued to the screen waiting for the next thing to happen. Awesome subtitle editing by the way, hail to the butt cheeks.
It's only nine years since the bombs were dropped on Japan and the war came to an end when this was made...it must go to explaining the tech gap between Hollywood and this
Mushashi was famous for his double bladed style, but, The Samurai Trilogy (also starring Mifune) is a different story (dir Hiroshi Inagaki) and worth a watch by itself
The Seven Samurai is amazing and the first action movie. It's one of my favorite movies. Black and white era Kurosawa is amazing. The Wizard of Oz is more influential though. The Star Wars OT is a reworking of Wizard of Oz and other stories like Lord of the Rings (with some Kurosawa). (I wonder if Seven Samurai was influenced by the Hobbit novel. Lord of the Rings, which is similar to Hobbit, came out around the same time.)
I think in order to fully understand a movie such as this, it's important to understand a lot of japanese cultural background. The circular symbol symbolizing the samurais is actually called an enzo, and it also symbolizes a thing such a zen. Zen originated from the chinese Chan that itself originated from the Indian word Dhyana. You could say, it's a symbol that symbolizes many things, enlightenment being one of them. I imagine it may symbolize the "perfection" of the quintessential samurai in this one. The seventh samurai on the other hand symbolizes everything that is not samurai, but at the same time, probably a point of Kurosawa's, it symbolizes the idea that even though the ideal samurai is a perfect being, even in perfect rests imperfection vis-a-vis the old latin saying - et in arcadia ego, which coincidentally is a title of one of the first season's double episodes of Star Trek Picard, which means something like - even in paradise, I am; as being said by the biblical snake, symbolizing that even in perfection, imperfection rests, and even in paradise, evil lurks, or as Gerard dePardieu says in 1492 - Conquest of Paradise, where he played Columbus, heaven and hell, we bring them with us wherever we go; and; I believe in heaven and hell, and that they both can be earthly. And vise-versa, even in the imperfect rests some however small point of perfect, symbolized by how the seventh samurai in some instance is able to educate the other six samurai as how to be better samurai. It's also a formative story of the seventh samurai, that forced away from being a farmer, takes up the sword and tries to become a samurai himself. A similar parallel would to some extent be the story in the Karate Kid, where Daniel-san in a way also shifts from being an ordinary kid who apart from landing in trouble also has an active role in starting some of the problems he ends up in, but slowly being schooled by mister Miyagi, mister being I believe a wordplay on master, as he really is master Miyagi to daniel-san. I don't know, but I believe we all in each our own way go through life from being relatively uneducated to what it is, to becoming more and more aware about it, the older and more experienced we get. The perfect life I guess would be one where you finally understand this existence, to some extent, before you die. Also even this broadcast, this podcast show is about some afficianados of movies and such who discusses and tries to understand the movies and series and episodes and relay this understanding to the rest of us. This formative experience is going on constantly in everything, - so you could say, that the Seven Samurai in a sense is a movie about not just life and it's up and downsides, but how we can master life, similar to how a surfer learns to not control the sea but yet to be able to understand the sea to a degree where you can surf just as if you controlled the waves. In essense, we learn to control ourselves in harmony with our environment, and this obviously is a big deal, especially in our times and in not just individual lives or communities but in the world at large, because everywhere we look, we see both order and chaos. So how can change the world, well, as is vey thematic in the Seven Samurai, a lot of changing the world is really about changing yourself. In essence, in the words of Bruce Lee, you cannot change people, you can only inspire them by setting an example.
I watched Yojimbo late on a Saturday evening with my dad. Not sure how old I was. 11, 12? I already had seen "A fistful of dollars" My first experience with Kurosawa I loved it. Fast forward and I'm in my later teens and BBC airs the samurai movies, 7 Samurai, Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Sanjuro I was blown away. .
50:45 could I inspire you to make an exception, the Three Musketeers and the Four Musketeers, The best and most faithful movie adaptation of Dumas' Masterpiece
The 1st 2 at least EXPENDABLES MOVIES. ALSO RIP IT OFFF. WARLORD. IN A LATIN ISLAND AND TERRORISING POPULOUS. SAME AS VAN DAMM DID TAKING WORKERS FROM THE VILLAGE TO THE MINE. LIKE RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT 7
Wizard of Oz was the exception with Color not the NORM. FFS MOST AMERICAN MOVIES IN THE 50S AND 1ST HALF OF THE 60S WERE FILMED IN B+W. COST. DIFFERENT CAMERAS. COLOR FILM ETC. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. GOODBYE MRS ROBINSON. EVEN GREATEST WAR MOVIE - THE LONGEST DAY. ALL B+W MOSTLY YANK. THAT MEAN AMERICA WAS BACKWARDS SINCE THEY'RE FILMED A DECADE AFTER 7 SAMURAI. WOW. SERIOUSLY. SOME TAKES ARE REALLY BAD. Don't like. B&W. Subs. Japanese. Samuri. Slow. O.m.g HERETICS. 😂
I respect how good this movie it but it’s just not my cup of tea . Excellent discussion I do want to ask that I think there are only 6 Avengers in the 2012 film. Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Hulk
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youve seen six string samurai, but not The Salute of the Jugger/The Blood of Heroes 1989?
Regarding the question brought up about samurai and gunnery. They used guns actually all the way back from the 13th century where they were introduced to the first types of these weapons from China. Then later europeans introduced the musket, and the samurai both incorporated these weapons into their martial arts practices, and modified both weapons and bullets and techniques to use guntype weapons in extremely creative and sophisticated ways. So Alex is right that the samurai did not shy away from those weapons, but they treated them seriously as a tool and a craft that probably would inspire and be in line with serious special forces units of today.
There are films on YT from Japanese gun clubs honouring this gun history. Tanegashima / matchlock guns
I actually have a VHS two tape copy of this movie, which was a library rental at one time. I finally watched it all the way through because you all were going to review it. I can say the first hour was hard for me to get into, but after the first hour I was glued to the screen waiting for the next thing to happen. Awesome subtitle editing by the way, hail to the butt cheeks.
It's only nine years since the bombs were dropped on Japan and the war came to an end when this was made...it must go to explaining the tech gap between Hollywood and this
True. The movie looks more like a 1930s American film (the quality of the film stock) than a 1950s American film.
Mushashi was famous for his double bladed style, but,
The Samurai Trilogy (also starring Mifune) is a different story (dir Hiroshi Inagaki) and worth a watch by itself
The Seven Samurai is amazing and the first action movie. It's one of my favorite movies. Black and white era Kurosawa is amazing. The Wizard of Oz is more influential though. The Star Wars OT is a reworking of Wizard of Oz and other stories like Lord of the Rings (with some Kurosawa). (I wonder if Seven Samurai was influenced by the Hobbit novel. Lord of the Rings, which is similar to Hobbit, came out around the same time.)
Awesome movie
Seven Samurai is amazing and one of the all time best movies.
I think in order to fully understand a movie such as this, it's important to understand a lot of japanese cultural background. The circular symbol symbolizing the samurais is actually called an enzo, and it also symbolizes a thing such a zen. Zen originated from the chinese Chan that itself originated from the Indian word Dhyana. You could say, it's a symbol that symbolizes many things, enlightenment being one of them. I imagine it may symbolize the "perfection" of the quintessential samurai in this one. The seventh samurai on the other hand symbolizes everything that is not samurai, but at the same time, probably a point of Kurosawa's, it symbolizes the idea that even though the ideal samurai is a perfect being, even in perfect rests imperfection vis-a-vis the old latin saying - et in arcadia ego, which coincidentally is a title of one of the first season's double episodes of Star Trek Picard, which means something like - even in paradise, I am; as being said by the biblical snake, symbolizing that even in perfection, imperfection rests, and even in paradise, evil lurks, or as Gerard dePardieu says in 1492 - Conquest of Paradise, where he played Columbus, heaven and hell, we bring them with us wherever we go; and; I believe in heaven and hell, and that they both can be earthly. And vise-versa, even in the imperfect rests some however small point of perfect, symbolized by how the seventh samurai in some instance is able to educate the other six samurai as how to be better samurai. It's also a formative story of the seventh samurai, that forced away from being a farmer, takes up the sword and tries to become a samurai himself. A similar parallel would to some extent be the story in the Karate Kid, where Daniel-san in a way also shifts from being an ordinary kid who apart from landing in trouble also has an active role in starting some of the problems he ends up in, but slowly being schooled by mister Miyagi, mister being I believe a wordplay on master, as he really is master Miyagi to daniel-san. I don't know, but I believe we all in each our own way go through life from being relatively uneducated to what it is, to becoming more and more aware about it, the older and more experienced we get. The perfect life I guess would be one where you finally understand this existence, to some extent, before you die. Also even this broadcast, this podcast show is about some afficianados of movies and such who discusses and tries to understand the movies and series and episodes and relay this understanding to the rest of us. This formative experience is going on constantly in everything, - so you could say, that the Seven Samurai in a sense is a movie about not just life and it's up and downsides, but how we can master life, similar to how a surfer learns to not control the sea but yet to be able to understand the sea to a degree where you can surf just as if you controlled the waves. In essense, we learn to control ourselves in harmony with our environment, and this obviously is a big deal, especially in our times and in not just individual lives or communities but in the world at large, because everywhere we look, we see both order and chaos. So how can change the world, well, as is vey thematic in the Seven Samurai, a lot of changing the world is really about changing yourself. In essence, in the words of Bruce Lee, you cannot change people, you can only inspire them by setting an example.
I watched Yojimbo late on a Saturday evening with my dad. Not sure how old I was. 11, 12?
I already had seen "A fistful of dollars"
My first experience with Kurosawa
I loved it.
Fast forward and I'm in my later teens and BBC airs the samurai movies, 7 Samurai, Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Sanjuro
I was blown away.
.
I didn’t realize the full artistry of Japanese cinema until I got the true Salty Nerd translation…Amazing! Fierce! Moving!
😢😂
Great intro and outro :)
🤣🤣😂🤣 awesome intro!
50:45 could I inspire you to make an exception, the Three Musketeers and the Four Musketeers,
The best and most faithful movie adaptation of Dumas' Masterpiece
I think something was lost in translation...
This movie is great but I would rather watch the Daimajin Trilogy. Samurai movies where a big stone god shows up at the end and pours out his wrath.
Also even a master misnamed this movie. They're RONAN. MASTERLESS SAMURAI WHO ARE NO LONGER SAMURAI OR NEVER MADE IT.
In the original Avengers, there were 6, not 7. Iron Man, Capt America, Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, & Black Widow. Who is the 7th?
Coulson. Yeah. Thats the answer.
Wanker Boy.
I have the DVD. Ran is better, Ikiru is the best movie of all time with Ladri di Biciclette
The 1st 2 at least EXPENDABLES MOVIES. ALSO RIP IT OFFF. WARLORD. IN A LATIN ISLAND AND TERRORISING POPULOUS. SAME AS VAN DAMM DID TAKING WORKERS FROM THE VILLAGE TO THE MINE. LIKE RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT 7
Wizard of Oz was the exception with Color not the NORM. FFS MOST AMERICAN MOVIES IN THE 50S AND 1ST HALF OF THE 60S WERE FILMED IN B+W. COST. DIFFERENT CAMERAS. COLOR FILM ETC. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.
GOODBYE MRS ROBINSON.
EVEN GREATEST WAR MOVIE - THE LONGEST DAY. ALL B+W MOSTLY YANK. THAT MEAN AMERICA WAS BACKWARDS SINCE THEY'RE FILMED A DECADE AFTER 7 SAMURAI. WOW. SERIOUSLY. SOME TAKES ARE REALLY BAD. Don't like. B&W. Subs. Japanese. Samuri. Slow. O.m.g HERETICS. 😂
Dude chill out most people aren’t that knowledgeable in film
@@rupertsmith5815 yea i know. And you're right.
I respect how good this movie it but it’s just not my cup of tea . Excellent discussion I do want to ask that I think there are only 6 Avengers in the 2012 film. Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Hulk
Not your cup of tea? Need to watch better movies
Miss Pee Pants.