Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa’s historical epic “Seven Samurai” is one of the most celebrated, influential and and important works in the history of film. Whether the reason being chilling and energy ladden battle scenes, forerunners of contemporary action film, pioneering of central theme of a group of heroic protagonists, or the emotionally grippling performances of the samurai’s – Takahashi Shimura, and Toshiro Mifune, “Seven Samurai” is an unforgettable treat for each film lover.

At it’s time made on an unprecedented buget and scale, the mammoth production sets the viewer in the midst of the raptured scenery of the 16th century Japan. Due to feudal civial war Japan has been evoked into internal chaos and the country is being decimated by gangs of former warriors. To protect themselves from a second hit by raving group of bandits, the residents of a poor farmer village decided to hire a group of masterless samurai, so called rônin, who have hence lost the primary goal of their lives only for the reward of food.

They successfully manage to attract the interest of wise and battle experienced Kanbei who gathers a bunch of seven warriors each with different skills and personality traits to engage in hopeless seeming fight against the gun equipped bandits. An epic spectacle proceeds, where opposites clash from action to philosophy, humour and tears, life and death, only to jointly write a new pages in the history of cinema.

To celebrate the passing of centennial from Akira Kurosawa’s birth, for the first time in Estonia PÖFF screens “Seven Samurai” in its full glory in brand new digitally restored and uncut version.

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