A 16th century Japanese village is the main setting for this 1954 foreign film classic
[DOC] [TLE] Seven Samurai - Willamette University [PAR] The major films that take the past as their subject....shift their focus away from the 
modern ... On it, samurai and village are represnted as graphic symbols, and the 
flag infuses ... 1954) came from Kurosawa's interest in making a new type of 
jidaigeki film.