One of the interesting facts offered up by the new three-disc reissue of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa 's masterwork ``Seven Samurai " (1954 ) is that the film's original opening scene was jettisoned. As released, the picture begins by showing a gang of feudal Japanese bandits surveying a farming ... (Full article: 1840 words)
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