Re: 7 Samurai => Mag 7 => NdeM #267 ...

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Ed Stabler Wrote:
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> > The director of 7 Samurai, Kurusawa, is con-
> > sidered to be the #1 director of Samurai flicks.
>
> > He pretty well did for Toshiro Mifune what John
>
> > Ford did for John Wayne. -- Ed
>
>
> Right, Ed -
>
> Except Kurusawa made a lot more than just Samurai
> flicks.  IIRC, he is considered one of the
> all time
> best Japanese directors of all kinds of movies,
> and Mifune one of the all time best Japanese
> actors.
>
> - Roosso
>
> p.s. I fell asleep on the couch watching several
> silent comedy shorts on TCM, but woke up in time
> to see
> the original "Mumblety-Peg" scene - with swords
> instead of gun vs knife - just before hitting the
> sack.

Right you are about Kurusawa. He and John Ford were quite similar in many respects, considering the variety of exceptional films they made.

Mifune was superb as Toranaga in the TV mini-series "Shogun", based on the James Clavelle novel.

Ed