Seven Samurai: 70 Years On

Akira Kurosawa’s influential masterpiece is still a cinematic force to be reckoned with

Credit: Toho

Recently, there’s been much huffing and puffing about the length of films in cinemas, and whether there’s a need to reinstate an intermission for longer works. At a bladder-bursting 208 minutes, Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai had such an intermission. It was present in the recent BFI rerelease, and it’s also present on DVD and B…