Message from gmora

[Anonymous]

I personally recommend the movie classic, Seven Samurai. It was co-writen and directed by Akira Kurosawa (legend of the Japanese Film Industry and hero to many American film directors). The premise of the story involves hapless villagers who are routinely targeted by bandits every harvest season and left starving. In order to avoid being robbed of their food, the villagers enlist the help of seven samurai to scare off the bandits. The samurai, however, teach the villagers that they are capable of defending themselves and empower the villagers to defeat the bandits.

I would assign this movie to students, in order for them to develop an understanding of feudal japan prior to the tokugawa shogunate. Comparisons could also be made between european and japanese fuedal societies.
edited by gmora on 8/1/2016