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...BEARD. Japan's Akira Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest film makers, and in this deceptively simple story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor he has made one of his greatest films. Kurosawa's techniques are impeccable, and his actors-especially the justly famed Toshiro Mifune-are among the most accomplished ever to appear on screen...
...BEARD. Japan's Akira Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest film makers, and in this deceptively simple story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor, he has made one of his greatest films. Kurosawa's canvas is the whole range of human experience. His techniques are impeccable, and his actors-especially the justly famed Toshiro Mifune-are among the most accomplished ever to appear on screen...
Even the modest projects of Japan's Akira Kurosawa are conceived and executed on a grand scale. Whether his subject is history (Seven Samurai), social commentary (The Bad Sleep Well), classic drama (The Lower Depths) or thriller (High and Low), Kurosawa invests each film with the breadth of an epic vision. Taken together, his films are like a single, vivid morality play, often heroic and sometimes cynical, celebrating the triumph of man over circumstance...
...including some of the most important in Japan. They agreed to act the roles of wartime admirals and diplomats in the movie, to be released worldwide by 20th Century-Fox about a year from now. But why put businessmen in those parts? For a very practical reason, says Director Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Seven Samurai), who is handling the Japanese portion of the co-production with U.S. moviemakers: there were few if any professional actors available who looked and acted like the nail-hard World War II militarists of Japan. Then Kurosawa figured that running the Imperial Japanese war machine...
...claims that "it gets inside of you." Another has suicidal urges, and a couple of the gunmen frankly prefer fooling around with women. Gradually it becomes clear that Seven is a ludicrous reprise of The Magnificent Seven (1960), which, in turn, was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's magnificent, often profound 1954 drama about a septet of chivalrous samurai in late feudal Japan. Only holdover from Hollywood's previous Seven is Brynner, repeating his role as ringleader with the bald-faced boredom of an hombre who knows he has strapped his saddle to a dead horse. The movie...