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Seven Samurai Trivia

1. Akira Kurosawa created a registry of all 101 villagers in the movie and designed a family tree to help extras build their characters and relationships with each other.
2. Akira Kurosawa used multiple cameras for the first time in this film to avoid interrupting the flow of scenes and to have more control during post-production editing. He used this technique on all subsequent films.
3. All seven major characters in the film were based on historical samurai after months of research.
4. Often credited as the first modern action movie, Akira Kurosawa brought together several commonly used cinematographic and plot elements for the first time, including slow motion and the reluctant hero.
5. The film takes place in 1586, and the real Kikuchiyo, mentioned in the scroll scene, was born in year two of the Tensho era (1574) and was considered 13 years old according to Japanese convention.
6. Toshirô Mifune named his role as Kikuchiyo as his favorite, as he felt he could be himself while playing the character.
7. Producers grew concerned about the production cost of the film and shut it down at least twice, but Kurosawa believed that the studio had invested too much to scrap it and went fishing instead of arguing.
8. Despite not being highly regarded by Japanese critics at the time of its release, this film is often described as the greatest Japanese film ever made by well-known Japanese film historian Donald Richie and "Entertainment Weekly" in its list of The 100 Greatest Films of All Time.
9. Akira Kurosawa refused to shoot the peasant village at Toho Studios and had a complete set constructed at Tagata on the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka, believing that the quality of the set influences the quality of the actors' performances.
10. Toshirô Mifune reportedly watched films of lions in the wild for inspiration for his character, and Akira Kurosawa's ancestors were samurai, up to 100 years before he made this film.