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Hey guys! Here is the YT edit for Seven Samurai, which will premiere shortly!

Just updated the link, the one that was sent out in the emails doesn't have the subtitles!

Direct link in case the above player doesn't work.

Here is the full reaction to this movie.

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SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

Enjoy my reaction as I watch "Seven Samurai" for the first time! This week is "Seven's Week" (for lack of a better name haha), and I'll be watching Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven (1960), and The Magnificent Seven (2016). You can check out the full-length reactions to all of them on Patreon as of right now! 🎬 You can check out this specific full-length reaction on Patreon here: https://bit.ly/42lVkrf 📮 Send mail to: PO BOX 547, Provo UT 84603

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AC5555

So glad you’re getting back into old films again and not to mention world cinema. Definitely hope you do director polls going forward. Say deciding whose work to watch for a series. Like having a poll include Scorsese, Joachim Trier, Ridley scott, John Wayne, Christopher nolan. Michael Haneke, Ari Aster, Hitchcock. Andrea Arnold. Agnès Varda, Vittorio de Sica, Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Almodóvar, Iñarritu and Kieslowski. We pick whose work you watch. And you’ll watch as many of their films as you can in a week or two. Subpoll for those. I feel that’s the only way you can finally get through all the Hitchcock films and also gain an understanding of how directors evolve over the course of their career. Their style.

AC5555

Highly recommend seeing more foreign films. Out of Japanese filmmakers, highly recommend Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi, and Kore-eda

David Conroy

Feudal Japan, starting from around the time this film is set, had a legal caste system - a samurai and a peasant girl had no future as a couple, which is why the relationship was frowned upon.

David Conroy

Also, samurai were the equivalent of knights in medieval Europe: professional warriors. But in Europe, where knights owned land that supported them and served whatever lord ruled that land, in Japan the lord owned all the land and paid the samurai who served him a stipend. A "ronin" was a samurai with no master to serve, which meant he was unemployed.

Paul Stelter

If you thought RETURN OF THE KING was a long movie...but at least this has an intermission. :) THRONE OF BLOOD (1957) makes a good Shakespeare Season watch -- Toshiro Mifune and other SEVEN SAMURAI cast members do a feudal Japanese version of MACBETH. (Although for my money the best and funniest adaptation of The Scottish Play is SCOTLAND, PA. (2001)).

AC5555

I was mostly sticking with live action filmmakers but Definitely!

SyrupMcWaffle

Notably this is considered one of the most influential films by one of the most influential directors of all time Akira Kurosawa. He was a huge influence on many directors like Steven Speilberg and George Lucas. The samurai were one of the big inspirations for the Jedi and Kurosawa movies were a big inspiration for Star Wars. In a interesting story Kurosawa loved American westerns and so made his samurai movies, like this one to be western style stories for his homeland. He was then incredibly flattered that several of his movies like this one were then made into westerns. You have already seen one of the westerns based on his movies, A Fistfull of Dollars, the first of “the man with no name trilogy” starring Clint Eastwood is basically a shot for shot remake of the Kurosawa movie called Yojimbo.

Dooly

Ghibli is notorious for striking down channels that react to their films.

Viet Ta

I think the biggest thing is that movies this old pioneered these themes/stories that led to imitators in the future like the last samurai or the Mando episode.

Rick Moreno

Didn't notice that anybody has mentioned it, but I think you have probably watched at least one of the remakes of this movie. "A Bug's Life" is heavily influenced by Seven Samurai for the basic outline of the plot (though the bugs pretend to be warriors). Some stories are so well done, they have to make a kid-friendly version of it!

Johan

I can understand the cultural significance of Kurosawa films but after watching Rashomon & The Seven Samurai I have a hard time with the overacting in his films so have never been interested in watching more of his films.

barnabas

This link works for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4loN68_P8

Mike Lemon

Thanks. This link from her main channel also works, so probably a re-upload? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuxw60CT2k