Seven Samurai and other screenplays
These three screenplays are based on Kurosawa's shooting scripts. Ikiru (1952) tells the painful and intimate story of a Japanese civil servant coming to terms with old age and death. In Seven Samurai (1954) the inhabitants of a small Janpanese village employ a roaming band of samurai to defend them. In Throne of Blood (1957), based on Macbeth, a samurai is encouraged by his wife to kill his lord. This edition also includes a critical introduction to each screenplay.