I have just watched the movie and really enjoyed it. For those who are not familiar with Akira Kurosawa (actually that includes me), this is a black and white movie about some villagers trying to employ ronins (masterless samurai) to protect their village from bandits.
I have only watched 3 of Akira Kurosawa's movies: "Ran", "Roshomon" and "Seven Samurai", and "Seven Samurai" is the one which I enjoyed most, because I liked the action, and the strategic planning (really reminds me of battles in STW - how you need to know the terrain and make use of it). Ran has some huge battle scenes, but I felt they were quite brief. The focus of the story was not on the battles themselves anyway.
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