History YMMV / SevenSamurai

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A major victim of this phenomenon, it has been so influential that modern viewers can often miss its brilliance. Many of the visual jokes can now be recognized from miles away. It's often called the first modern action film. The various tropes had all existed before, but this was the first time they were all used together.

** Seiji Miyaguchi as Kyuzo is also highly admired (frequently called "the cool one"), for being a badass swordsman who is laconic and nonchalant about his awesomeness.
* GeniusBonus: A close look at Kyuzo's introductory duel shows that he sacrifices the chance for a first strike to land what would be a sure killing blow, hence his insistence that he won. Once the real swords come out, he instead prioritizes speed as he can no longer allow himself to be hit.

* HoYay: Katsushiro's worshipful admiration of Kyuzo can easily be seen as this.

** The bandit killed by Kyuzo was played by Creator/HaruoNakajima, who's best known for playing {{Franchise/Godzilla}} during the Showa era.

%%* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Kyuzo and Kikuchiyo.]]
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The actor who played Kyuzo, Seiji Myaguchi, had never handled a sword in his life, not even a UsefulNotes/{{Kendo}} cane. However, with some clever camera tricks, he looked like the best swordsman in the film. Considering that this is long before digital editing, that's pretty impressive.

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: Creator/AkiraKurosawa wrote a complete dossier for each character with a speaking role. In it were details about what they wore, their favourite foods, their past history, their speaking habits, their reaction to battle and every other detail he could think of about them. No other Japanese director had ever done this before.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/TatsuyaNakadai was an extra in the early scenes of the farmers searching for samurai to hire, eventually becoming a major star in many of Japan's great cinema classics, including supporting roles in Kurosawa's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'', ''Film/{{Sanjuro}}'', and ''Film/HighAndLow'', and the leads in the later ''Film/{{Kagemusha}}'' and ''Film/{{Ran}}''.

* AwardSnub: It received two Oscar nominations for Art Direction and Costume Design, but not Best Foreign Language Film.