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Akira Kurosawa on how wrongly critics interpreted his movies and how he feels disrespected by it: "Interviewer: The critic Michitaro Tada said that the end of 'Seven Samurai' (1954), when the peasants begin their song and plant their rice, represents a return to peasant tradition. Do you agree with that? Do you know Mr. Tada? Kurosawa: No, I don’t know him. I have read what he wrote about my films again and again, but I do not understand what he meant…" The full text is available for our subscri

Rent Akira Kurosawa's epic Seven Samurai (1954) in the Criterion edition: bit.ly/seven_samurai One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa—featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura—seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action,