Akira Kurosawa | Group Compositions in Seven Samurai - Chasing LightKurosawa was one of the 20th century’s master auteurs and perhaps my favorite director. His pairing with Toshiro Mifune over 16 films constitute one of the, if not the, most productive actor-director collaboration in the history of cinema. And the greatest of these is Seven Samurai, one of the best films ever made and one that I continually revisit. Kurosawa said he studied the master as often as
