The Seven Samurai: And Other Screenplays

by Akira Kurosawa

Presents three early works from the Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa. In The Seven Samurai (1954) the inhabitants of a small Japanese village employ a band of roaming Samurai to defend them. This film was eventually used as a model for The Magnificent Seven. The other screenplays featured include Ikiru (1952) which tells the painful and intimate story of a Japanese civil servant's coming to terms with old age and death. Throne of Blood (1957), based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 057116224X
• ISBN13: 9780571162246
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.5"