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Free Thinking: Landmark: Seven Samurai

Landmarks: Seven Samurai

25/03/2014

Landmark: Seven Samurai

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Seven Samurai

Matthew Sweet and guests including Ian Christie and SF Said on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

Professor Ian Christie, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and authors SF Said and Alexander Jacoby join Matthew Sweet to discuss Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai.

Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai traces the story of a group of Samurai who are hired to prevent thieves stealing the crops from a farming village in 1587 during the Warring States period of Japanese history. It inspired the Western The Magnificent Seven and regularly appears on polls of the greatest films of world cinema.

Matthew Sweet is joined for a discussion of this Landmark of culture by Professor Ian Christie, critic Larushka Ivan Zadeh, writer SF Said and Dr Alexander Jacoby, author of A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors.

Producer: Zahid Warley

First broadcast 25/03/2014.

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