It might ordinarily sound like hyperbole to come right out and say that a movie is one of the very best of all time, but ...

Few movies have been more influential than "Seven Samurai," an existential action film directed by Akira Kurosawa that, at longer than three hours, seemingly muscled its way into existence.

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