{"id":317,"date":"1954-04-26T00:50:12","date_gmt":"1954-04-26T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/?p=317"},"modified":"2022-03-31T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:31:14","slug":"seven-samurai-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/seven-samurai-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>A 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film takes place in 1586 (during the Sengoku period of Japanese history) and follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven r\u014dnin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.<\/p>\n<p>Voted the greatest foreign-language film in BBC&#8217;s 2018 international critics&#8217; poll and a whopping 207 minutes (3hrs, 27mins), <em>\u2018Seven Samurai\u2019 (1954)<\/em> is still an entertaining international masterpiece that blends action, humour and romance with cultural significance &#8211; a feat rarely attained with film and was a treat to enjoy on 35mm at its original aspect ratio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2605 \u2605 \u2605 \u2605 \u00bd\u00a0\u2606<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film takes place in 1586 (during the Sengoku period of Japanese history) and follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven r\u014dnin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Voted the greatest foreign-language film &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/seven-samurai-1954\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,22,33,34],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-review","tag-film","tag-sevensamurai","tag-action","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.electronicearth.ca\/syoung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}