NEW YORK — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. This summer, timed to the 1954 film’s 70th anniversary, a new restoration of “Seven Samurai” is playing in theaters beginning Wednesday in New York and expanding around the country July 12. Kurosawa, who made “Seven Samurai” after the masterworks of “Rashomon” and “Ikiru”, was influenced by …
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