The Seven Samurai: And Other Screenplays (Classic Screenplay Series)
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Author(s)Akira Kurosawa
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN / ASIN057116224X
ISBN-139780571162246
Sales Rank1,352,556
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
These three screenplays are based on Kurosawa's shooting scripts.
Ikiru (1952) tells the painful and intimate story of a Japanese civil servant coming to terms with old age and death. In Seven Samurai (1954) the inhabitants of a small Janpanese village employ a roaming band of samurai to defend them. In Throne of Blood (1957), based on Macbeth, a samurai is encouraged by his wife to kill his lord.
This edition also includes a critical introduction to each screenplay.
Ikiru (1952) tells the painful and intimate story of a Japanese civil servant coming to terms with old age and death. In Seven Samurai (1954) the inhabitants of a small Janpanese village employ a roaming band of samurai to defend them. In Throne of Blood (1957), based on Macbeth, a samurai is encouraged by his wife to kill his lord.
This edition also includes a critical introduction to each screenplay.
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