• A dialogue-heavy 59 minute work from the great master Kurosawa—the discussions about war and morals is fascinating- and he keeps it lively with some great shots around the circle of men (seven traveling warriors of course)
  • Use of wipe edit
  • set in 12th century
  • Sort of a C+ version of the 1941 film The 47 Ronin from Mizoguchi- at this stage in his career (fourth film) Kurosawa is a far cry from Mizoguchi
  • Kurosawa drifts the camera behind the bodies– and carefully arranges the bodies at all times
  • Recommend but not in the top 10 of 1945