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"THE FILM MUST BE SEEN AS AN EFFORT TO ADDRESS PRESSING QUESTIONS AROUND THE NATURE OF JAPANESE IDENTITY, CULTURE, CLASS STRUCTURE AND NATIONHOOD THAT KUROSAWA AND ALL JAPANESE PEOPLE CONFROUNTED IN THE WAKE OF THE PACIFIC WAR FOREIGN OCCUPATION AND THE SUBSEQUENT REINVENTION OF JAPAN." Patrick Crogan

EVALUATE CROGANS REMARKS ABOUT ‘SEVEN SAMUARI'(SHICHININ NO SAMUARI) PARTICUALARY WITH REGARD TO KUROSAWA'S IMAGERY AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE.

Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai reflects the nature of life in post-1945 Japan. Although the story is set in the turbulent era of 16th century, its characters and themes illustrate the changing period between the 1950's and 1960's in Japan. Kurosawa is said to be the most ‘Western of Japanese film makers'. (www.sencesofcinema.com) In Seven Samurai he combined a popular Japanese genre of the Samurai with the American western genre to achieve a westernized window on Japanese stories to achieve cross cultural communication. In this......

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Title: Seven Samuari
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