Skip to content

The Run-Down on Movies

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube Channel
  • LetterBoxd Profile

Search

Review Archives

Genre Categories

Tag: Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa Series – High and Low (1963)

Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963) sees a return to a contemporaneous urban Japan, a transition from the feudal period examined in many of his films in the previous decade, such as Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), and the one-two punch of Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). Yet, many […]

Read More Akira Kurosawa Series – High and Low (1963)

Akira Kurosawa Series – Throne of Blood (1957)

“Behold, within this place Now desolated, stood Once a mighty fortress Lived a proud warrior Murdered my ambition His spirit walking still Vain pride, then as now, will Lead ambition to the kill” Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film Throne of Blood – his interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, set in feudal Japan – opens and closes with […]

Read More Akira Kurosawa Series – Throne of Blood (1957)

Akira Kurosawa Series – The Hidden Fortress (1958)

  As someone who has been a massive fan of Star Wars for longer than I have been a major cinephile and film enthusiast, whispers of Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 film The Hidden Fortress have entered the conversation many times surrounding George Lucas’ space opera. I had always heard that Kurosawa was perhaps Lucas’ biggest inspiration […]

Read More Akira Kurosawa Series – The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Akira Kurosawa Series -Seven Samurai (1954)

“In life, one finds friends in the strangest of places.”  This is a quote spoken by a samurai warrior in 16th-century Japan, but it rings true centuries later all over the word. An array of variables and possibilities in everyday life produce endless permutations for the different relationships you build with people. Your best friends […]

Read More Akira Kurosawa Series -Seven Samurai (1954)
Follow The Run-Down on Movies on WordPress.com

Search

Tags

1980s Academy Awards Acting Adaptation Akira Kurosawa Alfred Hitchcock Aliens Art Direction Avengers Brian de Palma California Cinema Cinematography Clint Eastwood Close Encounters of the Third Kind Comedy Comic Books Coming of Age Costume Design Crime Drama DC Directing Disney Documentary Drama Editing Film Film Criticism Film Festival Filmmaking George Lucas Hans Zimmer Horror Interview Japan John Williams Kurosawa Martin Scorsese Marvel Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU Movie Movie Review Movies Music mystery Netflix North Carolina Oscars Oscars 2019 Practical Effects Production Design Quentin Tarantino Real to Reel Real to Reel Film Festival Reel Conversations Rian Johnson Ron Howard Samuel L. Jackson Science-Fiction Screenwriting Set Decoration Seven Samurai Short Film Social Commentary Sound Design Stan Lee Star Wars Steven Spielberg Superheroes Takashi Shimura The Breakfast Club Toshiro Mifune Visual Effects Writing
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • The Run-Down on Movies
    • Join 37 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Run-Down on Movies
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar