Akira Kurosawa--Music for Film: Seven Samurai Part 1

This is the begining of a new series of playlists that I'll be creating. Starting here, the music video series "Akira Kurosawa--Music for Film" will be devoted to the various themes from the director's many, many movies.

To kick things off, I present a suite of music from Kurosawa's most famous--and best--film, Seven Samurai. The music is composed by Fumio Hayasaka, a close friend of Kurosawa's who died shortly after Seven Samurai's release.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Akira
• Kurosawa
• Seven
• Samurai
• Fumio
• Hayasaka
• Japanese
• movie
• film
• music
• scores

[filmgeek22]

Ive just bought this film on DVD but havent sat down and watched it yet? Is it really a masterpiece?

[GojiGuru]

@filmgeek22 About as much of a masterpiece as you'll ever see. But view it open minded. It helps if you know what you're getting into because some don't find Kurosawa's style entertaining. But Seven Samurai is very enertaining.

[GojiGuru]

My first video to pass the 1,000-view mark--thanks guys!

[MrRoekkum]

Oh I've been looking for this soundtrack in years! Where did you buy it, or whatever you did to get it? I guess I'll be visiting this video quite often; one of the best scores in film history, I would dare to say.

[GojiGuru]

A friend gave it to me. I don't know where he got it. Sorry.

[Kankannan]

best fucking movie ever

[Israelroy]

does it really take that long to type a few alphabet to make it a word????

[MrRyanhancock1234]

@JoeCoolFreeman or your sweet ass cheeks as my tongue becomes curious :)

[AUG351]

Akira Kurosawa's Samurai movies are true art work. We will never see movies as great as his works.

[JoeCoolFreeman]

My all time favorite movie.....right behind The Godfather. But it's close dude! Real close! Like a gnats wing!

[DarrylCross]

Even though this film is approaching 60 years, as far as films that have captured my heart go, it has still yet to be topped. Among the many things going for it, it has an awesome score as heard on this video.

[chas63]

@filmgeek22 yes.

That's very funny, 'cause I have a copy of "Stray Dog" that I haven't watched yet. Seriously, though... the 7 Samurai may very well become your favorite film of all time. I think that I may have watched it more than 50 times. Not sick of it yet, either.

[Finarphin]

@filmgeek22 Yes.

[filmgeek22]

@samfilmkid lol yes i have. Masterpiece in every sense of the word dude!

[samfilmkid]

@filmgeek22 have you watched it yet? (silly since it's been a year, but what did you think of it?)

[rkotcher]

*Hey everyone! I'm a composer from Pittsburgh interested in film scoring. Please check out my music and let me know what you think! I'd super appreciate it!*