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Seven Samurai, the Glossary

is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film co-written, directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa.^[1]

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1950s samurai films
Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
Films produced by Sōjirō Motoki
Films scored by Fumio Hayasaka
Films set in 16th-century Sengoku period
Films set in the 1580s
Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa
Films with screenplays by Hideo Oguni
Films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto
Japanese action drama films
Japanese epic films

A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life is a 1998 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

Academy Award for Best Costume Design

The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for achievement in film costume design.

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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Action fiction

Action fiction is a literary genre that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events.

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Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Adventure film

An adventure film is a genre of film.

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Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (p 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Daily Star is an American daily newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, and owned by Lee Enterprises.

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Asakazu Nakai

was a Japanese cinematographer born in Hyōgo Prefecture, best known for his work with Akira Kurosawa.

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Atsushi Watanabe (actor, born 1898)

was a Japanese film actor.

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An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video.

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Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers.

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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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Bamboo

Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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A banner can be a flag or another piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or another message.

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Batman

Batman is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Battle Beyond the Stars

Battle Beyond the Stars is a 1980 American space opera film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, and starring Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Sybil Danning and Darlanne Fluegel.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films

BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films is a list compiled in 2018 by BBC Culture, as part of their annual critics' poll.

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.

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Blockbuster (entertainment)

A blockbuster is a work of entertainment—typically used to describe a feature film produced by a major film studio, but also other media—that is highly popular and financially successful.

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Bokuzen Hidari

was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Kotesashi Village (now part of Tokorozawa), Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Bryan Young (filmmaker)

Bryan Young (born July 17, 1980) is an American blogger, author and filmmaker.

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Cahiers du Cinéma

() is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

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Chapter 4: Sanctuary

"Chapter 4: Sanctuary" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American streaming television series The Mandalorian.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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China Gate (1998 film)

China Gate is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. Seven Samurai and China Gate (1998 film) are Siege films.

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Cinema of India

The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.

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Comedy film

Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.

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Concubinage

Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.

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Coolie

Coolie (also spelled koelie, kuli, khuli, khulie, cooli, cooly, or quli) is a pejorative term used for low-wage labourers, typically those of Indian or Chinese descent.

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Cutting on action

Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.

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Daisuke Katō

was a Japanese actor.

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Digital Cinema Package

A Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is a collection of digital files used to store and convey digital cinema (DC) audio, image, and data streams.

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Eijirō Tōno

was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions.

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Empire (magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Epic film

Epic films have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.

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European Audiovisual Observatory

The European Audiovisual Observatory (Observatoire européen de l’audiovisuel, Europäische Audiovisuelle Informationsstelle) is a public service organisation, part of the Council of Europe set up in 1992 as a partial agreement.

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Faber & Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Film editing

Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking.

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Filmsite

Filmsite is a film-review website established in 1996 by senior editor and film critic-historian Tim Dirks, and continues to be managed and edited by him for over two decades.

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Fumio Hayasaka

Fumio Hayasaka (早坂文雄 Hayasaka Fumio; August 19, 1914 – October 15, 1955) was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores.

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Fusosha Publishing

is a Japanese publishing company wholly owned by Fuji Media Holdings and part of the Fujisankei Communications Group.

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Galaxy Quest

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 American science fiction comedy film directed by Dean Parisot and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.

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George Miller (filmmaker)

George Miller (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian filmmaker.

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Godzilla (1954 film)

is a 1954 Japanese epic kaiju film directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Seven Samurai and Godzilla (1954 film) are 1950s Japanese films, 1950s Japanese-language films, 1954 films, Japanese black-and-white films, Japanese epic films and Toho films.

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Golden Lion

The Golden Lion (Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Gunfighter

Gunfighters, also called gunslingers or in the late 19th and early 20th century gunmen, were individuals in the American Old West who gained a reputation of being dangerous with a gun and participated in shootouts.

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Haruo Nakajima

was a Japanese actor and stuntman.

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Harvest

Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish (as well as fungi) as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops.

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Heist film

The heist film or caper film is a subgenre of crime films and the caper story, focused on the planning, execution, and aftermath of a significant robbery.

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Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt (born 1957) is an American novelist.

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Hideo Oguni

was a Japanese writer who wrote over 100 screenplays.

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High Noon

High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper.

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Hindi cinema

Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.

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History of Japan

The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago.

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Home video

Home video is recorded media sold or rented for home viewing.

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I Live in Fear

is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, produced by Sōjirō Motoki, and co-written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni. Seven Samurai and i Live in Fear are 1950s Japanese films, 1950s Japanese-language films, films directed by Akira Kurosawa, films produced by Sōjirō Motoki, films scored by Fumio Hayasaka, films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa, films with screenplays by Hideo Oguni, films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese black-and-white films and Toho films.

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Ikiru

is a 1952 Japanese tragedy film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. Seven Samurai and Ikiru are 1950s Japanese films, 1950s Japanese-language films, films directed by Akira Kurosawa, films produced by Sōjirō Motoki, films scored by Fumio Hayasaka, films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa, films with screenplays by Hideo Oguni, films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese black-and-white films and Toho films.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.

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Isao Kimura

, sometimes credited as Kō Kimura, was a Japanese stage and film actor who appeared in more than one hundred films of directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai and Yoshishige Yoshida.

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Ittō-ryū

, meaning "one-sword school", is the ancestor school of several Japanese Koryū kenjutsu styles, including Ono-ha, Mizoguchi-ha, Nakanishi-ha, Kogen, Hokushin, Itto Shoden and even Mugai Ryu.The style was developed by Itō Ittōsai Kagehisa.

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Izu Peninsula

The is a large mountainous peninsula with a deeply indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, Japan.

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Japanese economic miracle

The Japanese economic miracle (Kōdo keizai seichō) refers to Japan's record period of economic growth between the post-World War II era and the end of the Cold War.

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Javed Akhtar

Javed Akhtar (born 17 January 1945) is an Indian screenwriter, lyricist and poet.

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Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco (born Ioan Negulescu; – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.

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Jidaigeki

is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan.

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Jimmy T. Murakami

was an American animator and film director with a long career working in numerous countries.

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John Landis

John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American filmmaker and actor.

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John Sturges

John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director.

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Jussi Awards

The Jussi Awards are Finland's premier film industry prizes, awarded annually to recognize the achievements of directors, actors, and writers.

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Justice League

The Justice League, or Justice League of America (JLA), is a group of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Kamatari Fujiwara

was a Japanese stage and film actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1933 and 1984.

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Keiko Tsushima

was a Japanese actress, whose real name was.

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Kenneth Turan

Kenneth Turan (born October 27, 1946) is an American retired film critic, author, and lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.

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Kinema Junpo

, commonly called, is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919.

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Kohei Ezaki

was a Japanese Nihonga painter from Takatō, Nagano.

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Kokuten Kōdō

, real name Tanigawa Saichirō (谷川佐市郎), was a Japanese film actor.

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List of films voted the best

This is a list of films voted the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public.

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List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, a film has a rating of 100% if each professional review recorded by the website is assessed as positive rather than negative.

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List of highest-grossing films in Japan

The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in Japan.

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List of highest-grossing Indian films

This is a ranking of the highest-grossing Indian films, which includes films from various languages based on the conservative global box-office estimates as reported by reputable sources.

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List of historical films set in Asia

Historical or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based on historical events and famous persons.

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List of James Bond films

James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953.

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List of Star Wars films

The Star Wars franchise involves multiple live-action and animated films.

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List of Western subgenres

The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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Mad Max 2

Mad Max 2 (released as The Road Warrior in the United States) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote it with Terry Hayes and Brian Hannant.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-produced, and directed by George Miller.

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Mainichi Film Awards

The are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan, since 1946.

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Mani Ratnam

Gopalaratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in Tamil cinema and few Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker.

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios.

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Marvel Studios

Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American film and television production company.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Miller

A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour.

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Minoru Chiaki

was a Japanese actor who appeared in eleven of Akira Kurosawa's films, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and The Hidden Fortress.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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Motion Picture Editors Guild

The Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG; IATSE Local 700) is the guild that represents freelance and staff motion picture and television editors and other post-production professionals and story analysts throughout the United States.

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Multiple-camera setup

The multiple-camera setup, multiple-camera mode of production, multi-camera or simply multicam is a method of filmmaking and video production.

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National Society of Film Critics

The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) is an American film critic organization.

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NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and doing business as simply NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is a subsidiary of Comcast and is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Pachinko

is a mechanical game originating in Japan that is used as an arcade game, and much more frequently for gambling.

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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Peter Cowie

Peter Cowie (born 24 December 1939) is a British film historian and author of more than thirty books on film.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.

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Pre-credit

In film production, the pre-credit is the section of the film which is shown before the opening or closing credits are shown.

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Preemptive war

A preemptive war is a war that is commenced in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (allegedly unavoidable) war shortly before that attack materializes.

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Pyrrhic victory

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker and actor.

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Rain

Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.

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Ramesh Sippy

Ramesh Sippy (born 23 January 1947) is an Indian film director, actor and producer in Hindi cinema.

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Rashomon

is a 1950 jidaigeki drama film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. Seven Samurai and Rashomon are 1950s Japanese films, 1950s Japanese-language films, films directed by Akira Kurosawa, films scored by Fumio Hayasaka, films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa, films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese black-and-white films and jidaigeki films.

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Rōnin

In feudal Japan (1185–1868), a rōnin (浪人,, 'drifter' or 'wandering man') was a samurai who had no lord or master and in some cases, had also severed all links with his family or clan.

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Rebel Moon

Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, or simply Rebel Moon, is a 2023 American epic space opera film directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay he co-wrote with Kurt Johnstad and Shay Hatten.

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Rediff.com

Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rogue One

Rogue One (or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sachio Sakai

, born, was a Japanese actor.

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Salim Khan

Salim Abdul Rashid Khan (born 24 November 1935) is an Indian actor, film producer and screenwriter.

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Salim–Javed

Salim–Javed were an Indian screenwriting duo, composed of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who worked primarily in Hindi cinema.

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Samurai

were soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including ''daimyo'') in Feudal Japan.

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Samurai 7

Samurai 7 (stylized as SAMURAI 7) is a 2004 anime television series produced by Gonzo and based on the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.

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Samurai cinema

, also commonly spelled "chambara", meaning "sword fighting" films,Hill (2002).

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Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.

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Sōjirō Motoki

was a Japanese filmmaker who served primarily as a film producer, but also as a writer and director.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.

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Screen Rant

Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.

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Scroll.in, simply referred to as Scroll, is an Indian digital news publication.

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Seiji Miyaguchi

was a Japanese stage and film actor who appeared in films of Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Imai and many others.

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Sengoku period

The, is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Seven Samurai 20XX

is a PlayStation 2 game released by Sammy Studios in 2004.

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Seven Swords

Seven Swords is a 2005 wuxia film produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon.

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Shinobu Hashimoto

Shinobu Hashimoto (橋本忍, Hashimoto Shinobu; 18 April 1918 – 19 July 2018) was a Japanese screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Shinpei Takagi (actor, born 1902)

was a Japanese film actor.

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Shizuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.

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Sholay

Sholay is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim–Javed.

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Sight and Sound

Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Silver Lion

The Silver Lion (Leone d'argento, also known as Silver Lion for Best Direction) is an annual award presented for best directing achievements in a feature film at official competition section of the Venice Film Festival since 1998.

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So Matsuyama

, a.k.a. Sō Matsuda and Sō Matsuyama, was a Japanese production designer and art director.

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Space opera

Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance.

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Spokane Daily Chronicle

The Spokane Daily Chronicle is a daily digital newspaper in Spokane, Washington.

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Star Wars (film)

Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American animated television series created by George Lucas.

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Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

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Stephen Prince

Stephen Robert Prince (September 13, 1955 – December 30, 2020) was an American film critic, historian and theorist.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Sword-and-sandal

Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages.

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Syfy

Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Tagata District, Shizuoka

is a rural district located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Takashi Shimura

was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981.

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Tanegashima (gun)

, most often called in Japanese and sometimes in English, was a type of matchlock-configured arquebus firearm introduced to Japan through the Portuguese Empire in 1543.

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Tatsuya Nakadai

is a Japanese film actor.

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Telephoto lens

A telephoto lens, also known as telelens, is a specific type of a long-focus lens used in photography and cinematography, in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length.

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Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū

Written as 天眞正傳香取神道流 before adoption (1946) of Tōyō kanji.

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Thalapathi

Thalapathi is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language gangster drama film written and directed by Mani Ratnam, and produced by G. Venkateswaran.

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The 13th Warrior

The 13th Warrior is a 1999 American historical fiction action film based on Michael Crichton's 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead, which is a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings.

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The A-Team

The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from January 23, 1983 to March 8, 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit.

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The Avengers (2012 film)

Marvel's The Avengers (titled Marvel Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom and Ireland and commonly referred to as simply The Avengers) is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films".

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The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and Robert Webber.

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The Expendables (franchise)

The Expendables is an American ensemble action thriller franchise conceived by David Callaham, spanning a film series, the first three ones cowritten by Sylvester Stallone, and additional media.

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The Fierce Battles of Edo

is a Japanese jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in 1979.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Guns of Navarone (film)

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel of the same name.

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The Invincible Six

The Invincible Six is a 1970 American-Iranian adventure film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Stuart Whitman, Elke Sommer, Curd Jürgens, and Ian Ogilvy.

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The Last Samurai (novel)

The Last Samurai (2000) is the first novel by American writer Helen DeWitt.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Jackson, based on 1954's The Two Towers, the second volume of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. Seven Samurai and the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers are Siege films.

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The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges. Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven are Siege films.

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The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)

The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American Western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk.

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The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian is an American space Western television series created by Jon Favreau for the streaming service Disney+.

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The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Savage Seven

The Savage Seven is a 1968 outlaw biker exploitation film directed by Richard Rush, who had directed the previous year's Hells Angels on Wheels.

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The Seven Magnificent Gladiators

The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (I sette magnifici gladiatori) is an Italian peplum film directed by Bruno Mattei.

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The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012

The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012 was a worldwide opinion poll conducted by Sight & Sound and published in the magazine's September 2012 issue.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Walking Dead (TV series)

The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont, based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard.

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Three Amigos

¡Three Amigos! is a 1986 American Western comedy film directed by John Landis, written by Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, and Randy Newman (who also wrote the film's songs), and starring Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Steve Martin, Alfonso Arau, Tony Plana, Patrice Martinez, and Joe Mantegna.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a global magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Toho

is a Japanese entertainment company primarily engaged in the production and distribution of films and the production and exhibition of stage plays.

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Toho Studios

is a Japanese film production company that is a subsidiary of Toho Co., Ltd. One of the most successful films produced by Toho Studio is the live-action film Godzilla Minus One (2023) which generated more than $100 million at the global box office.

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Toshio Takahara

was a Japanese actor.

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Toshiro Mifune

was a Japanese actor and producer.

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Tsui Hark

Tsui Hark (Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-kong (Từ Văn Quang), is a Hong Kong filmmaker.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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Wesleyan University Press

Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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Windsor Star

The Windsor Star is a daily newspaper based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

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Wuxia

italic (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China.

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Yoshio Inaba

was a Japanese actor best known for his role as Gorobei in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

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Yoshio Kosugi

was a Japanese actor.

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Yoshio Sugino

was a Japanese martial artist and film choreographer.

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Yoshio Tsuchiya

was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal Bara No Soretsu (a.k.a. Funeral Parade of Roses) and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and Red Beard, and Kihachi Okamoto's Kill!.

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Yukiko Shimazaki

was a Japanese actress and singer.

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Zack Snyder

Zachary Edward Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Zack Snyder's Justice League

Zack Snyder's Justice League (colloquially referred to as the Snyder Cut) is the 2021 director's cut of the 2017 American superhero film Justice League, the fifth film set within the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) based on the team of the same name appearing in DC Comics publications.

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29th Academy Awards

The 29th Academy Awards were held on March 27, 1957, to honor the films of 1956.

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4K resolution

4K resolution refers to a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels.

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9th British Academy Film Awards

The 9th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1956, honoured the best films of 1955.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai

Also known as 7 Samurai, 7 Sumarai, Kambei Shimada, Kikuchiyo, Kikucho, Kyuzo, SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), Shichinin No Samurai, Shichinin no samurai (film), Shimada Kambei, The Seven Samurai, The Seven Samurai (film).

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