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Radio 3,2 mins

Seven Samurai: "It spawned a whole new era of Western creativity"

Free Thinking

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Ian Christie, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Alexander Jacoby and Matthew Sweet discuss Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai, the influence of John Ford on Kurosawa's work and how Seven Samurai inspired a revitalisation of the Western film genre. Image © Toho Co., Ltd, courtesy of BFI.

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