There are not many people who enjoy foreign films. Watching movies with voice over or reading subtitles for movies can sometimes seem like a chore. The good news is that if you find it difficult watching foreignmovies, then you won’t have to lose one. your Netflix rental. There are many great foreign movies on Netflix […]
Tag Archives: Seven Samurai
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Akira Kurosawa was born on March 23, 1910 to the descendents of a samurai family, with seven brothers and sisters. His childhood was marred repeatedly by death and destruction, all three of his brothers dying premature deaths, as well as one of his sisters. He lived through the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, in which 100,000 people […]
Movie buffs often place High Noon and Shane on the top of their list of favorite Western movies. Westerns were popular in the silent film era as well as in the ’30s and ’40s but the American Western reached a new level of maturity in the ’50s in the hand of intelligent directors like Fred […]
No, this did not make the list of the 100 greatest Martial Arts. Others debate which films had the best fights, plots or building values. These are the 100 best martial arts films ever. Some because they were offensive, others because of the incredible fight scenes, and others because they were so unbelievably bad that […]
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There is much to be said about the work of Akira Kurosawa and yet there is rarely a forum for his work to be compared to the great films of history. Fortunately, IMDb users have most appropriately rated his most watched and most influential film, Shichinin no Samurai as the number nine film of all […]
What to do with the Doctor Who TV series on hiatus until fall 2012? Catch up on my Doctor Who audiobooks, that’s what. I’ve got a lot to get through and I thought since the series is on the 11th Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith, I’d get through the latest ones first. It seems that […]
The Meiji restoration had a deep impact on Japan. The restoration, besides restoring power to the Meiji emperor (which, in reality, it just transferred power from the Tokugawa shogun to the new oligarchy of the daimyo that defeated him) changed Japanese society. “The salient characteristic of Japan’s mid-nineteenth century transitional period is the demise of […]