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Actor. Years active. 1952–2014. Yoshio Tsuchiya (土屋 嘉男, Tsuchiya Yoshio, May 18, 1927 – February 8, 2017) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto 's surreal Bara No Soretsu (a.k.a. Funeral Parade of Roses) and Akira Kurosawa 's Seven Samurai (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and Red Beard, and Kihachi ...
Destroy All Monsters (1968) 1 Video. 22 Photos. Yoshio Tsuchiya grew up in his ancestral home in the countryside of Japan--the very grounds where Akira Kurosawa would later film KAGEMUSHA (1980). Tsuchiya's father was a professor of literature at the prestigious Waseda University in Tokyo, and Tsuchiya grew up hearing as bedtime stories the ...
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- It Was Akira Kurosawa’s First Samurai Film.
- It Began as The Story of A Single Samurai.
- The Budget Was Unprecedented in Japan.
- Kurosawa Protested Production Delays by Going Fishing.
- Some of The Characters Were Based on Real Historical Figures.
- Kurosawa Made Detailed Character Notes Before The Script Was Even written.
- It Originally Opened with A Battle sequence.
- It Stars Several Frequent Kurosawa Collaborators.
- The Main Theme Was Originally Thrown away.
- Seiji Miyaguchi Initially Turned Down His role.
He’s known now as the genre’s greatest master, but Kurosawa was more than a decade into his career as a director before he made Seven Samurai. It’s the most ambitious and praised of all of his samurai films, but while other directors might have built up to such a massive project, this was actually his first samurai movie. Other classics, including ...
When Kurosawa first set out to make a samurai film, he sat down with screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto and outlined the idea of a “day in the life” story about a single samurai. The film would be an intimate portrayal of a warrior who got up in the morning, had his breakfast, went to work at his master’s castle and then, after making a mistake, would ...
At the time Seven Samurai entered production, most major Japanese films cost around $70,000. Because Kurosawa demanded the authenticity of things like a fully constructed outdoor village location, and because of frequent production challenges, the shoot dragged on and eventually took a year to complete. As a result, the budget ballooned to nearly $...
As the production process of Seven Samurai grew longer and longer, producers grew worried that Kurosawa was spending too much on the film. As a result, production was closed down“at least twice.” Instead of arguing, Kurosawa simply left to go fishing, believing that the studio had already invested so much money into the film that they wouldn’t simp...
Because copious research into the lives of samurai was done as part of the writing process, some of the characters were ultimately based on real historical figures. For example, the cold master swordsman Kyuzo (Seiji Miyaguchi), was based on Miyamoto Musashi, one of the most famous samurai who ever lived.
Seven Samurai was written over a period of six weeks as Kurosawa, Hashimoto, and co-writer Hideo Oguni holed up in a hotel room in Atami, working so hard they didn’t even take phone calls. Even before the scripting process began, though, Kurosawa filled a notebook with detailed notes on each of the seven main characters, including their heights, ag...
The film’s famous opening shot features a group of bandits riding over a hilltop and then debating whether or not to attack a village below. According to Hashimoto, the film originally started with those same bandits actually attacking another village, and the ultimate opening shot was what happened afterthat attack. Kurosawa decided to cut the att...
Throughout his career, Kurosawa developed a kind of stock company of actors who he frequently turned to, and several of them have key roles in Seven Samurai. Most famously, Toshirô Mifune worked on 16 films with Kurosawa, including Stray Dog (1949), Throne of Blood (1957), andYojimbo (1961). Yoshio Tsuchiya, who played the villager Rikichi, went on...
For Seven Samurai, Kurosawa again worked with friend and collaborator Fumio Hayasaka, who also composed the scores for classics like Stray Dog (1949) and Rashômon (1950). Hayasaka composed several pieces for the film, but when he played them for Kurosawa, the director rejected them. Desperate for something that would please the filmmaker, Hayasaka ...
Seiji Miyaguchi was offered the role of Kyuzo, the film’s greatest swordsman, and he wanted to turn the role down because he’d never done any movie swordplay before. Kurosawa convinced him that he would make the sword scenes work through camera angles and editing, and Miyaguchi ultimately agreed to take the part. Shortly before shooting, he took a ...
Yoshio Tsuchiya was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal Bara No Soretsu and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Red Beard, and Kihachi Okamoto's Kill!. He had a long-standing interest in UFOs and wrote several books on the subject. He preferred starring in science fiction films, usually as aliens, or people possessed by them, in such films as Battle in ...
Yoshio Tsuchiya is a Japanese actor who was born in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. He made his debut in the 1951 film “Aoi Sanmyaku”. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films of Akira Kurosawa, including “Rashomon” (1950), “Ikiru” (1952), “Seven Samurai” (1954), and “Throne of Blood” (1957).
Yoshio Tsuchiya (土屋 嘉男, Tsuchiya Yoshio, born May 18, 1927) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal Bara No Soretsu (a.k.a. Funeral Parade of Roses) and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and Red Beard, and Kihachi Okamoto's Kill!.
Feb 8, 2017 · 1953. Tower of Lilies. 1952. I Was a Prisoner in Siberia. Yoshio Tsuchiya (土屋 嘉男 Tsuchiya Yoshio, May 18, 1927 – February 8, 2017) was a Japanese actor known for his frequent appearances in Akira Kurosawa's Samurai films as well as Ishiro Honda's science fiction films.
