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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Seven Samurai


This is one I did for a Japanese movie from 1954 called "Seven Samurai". This one is really worn out but I like the effect gives and I could easily make a new one if I really wanted to. The design is a copy of a flag made in the film by one of the seven samurai. The six circles represent six of the Samurai and the triangle if for the the character of Kikuchiyo who's the misfit of the group.


Considered to be the one of the first "modern" action films Seven Samurai is the masterpiece of director Akira Kurosawa. Basically it's the tale of a poor village of farmers who hire seven hungry samurai to defend them against a group of bandits that will be attacking at the end of the yearly harvest. This movie set a lot of action film staples like the assembling of a team for a mission and the use of slow motion in action sequences.

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