'Samurai' remains a great among the greats

Chicago Sun-Times | November 8, 2002| | Copyright

The following is a reprint of Roger Ebert's 2001 essay on "The Seven Samurai," which can be found in his book, The Great Movies (Broadway Books).

Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" (1954) is not only a great film in its own right, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century. The critic Michael Jeck suggests that this was the first film in which a team is assembled to carry out a mission--an idea which gave birth to its direct Hollywood remake, "The Magnificent Seven," as well as "The Guns of Navarone," "The Dirty Dozen" and countless later war, heist and caper ...

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