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Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)

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Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)  (1954) A Review by Grant Kanigan Directed by :  Akira Kurosawa Written by : Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto,  & Hideo Oguni Starring:   ToshirĂ´ Mifune, Takashi Shimura Rating:   Not Rated Release Date:   April 9th, 1954 Takashi Shimura, ToshirĂ´ Mifune and the Seven Samurai prepare for battle in Seven Samurai Image Source Note: This review contains spoilers.       With the epicentre of commercial cinema having lied within the borders of North America since it's inception, people tend to forget that cinema can also be a multilingual, multicultural form of art. Nowadays, people have access to more and more independent content throughout the world as globalized media enters the digital age. Brilliant foreign films like Wild Tales , The Hunt , Kon-Tiki , Monsieur Lazhar and Departures  are all available, either through iTunes, Netflix or online ordering, through relatively cost-effective means. In some ways, this