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The farmers have won. We have lost. Favorite Movie Quote: "What's the use of worrying about your beard when your head's about to be taken?" You just can't add enough praise for Akira Kurosawa and for this film. It is a cinematic masterpiece that affects many movies made since. It certainly is one of the greatest of all times. Everyone is familiar with the approaching band of riders coming into view as they crest a hilltop. This is the first film in which it was used. This is the first modern action movie. Certain elements in this movie are banded together for the first time by Kurosawa to produce a film that is brilliant in it's cinematography and costuming and sets. Sure, it's long at over three hours, but that gives us time to really get to know the characters and feel pain when they die. Unlike it's successor, The Magnificent Seven, the motivations of the samurai are not clear, and we are left to surmise why they would take a job that pays nothing. That is the magic of this film. It certainly belongs in the queue of anyone that calls themselves a movie lover. email this review to a friend
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