Sarah Jilani

The Bollywood classic Sholay and Iran's Savalan are cited by the British Film Institute as having been inspired by it.

Hiso works with his father on several films in later decades, but Seven Samurai remains one of his favourite Kurosawa movies.

While the fight scenes were enjoyable, when the farmers were troubled, the many heartwarming scenes.

That's why I find this film enjoyable.

But Hiso says the legacy of Seven Samurai is for you to decide.

People who saw it will think from here.

Everyone sees the film in a different way, making use of a good story to create enjoyable scenes which make people happy or move them.

That is what is important.

Oh, undoubtedly.

I mean, war is a very harrowing experience for an entire collective of people.

And cinema has never been detached from essentially what society is feeling and thinking.

It often becomes a tool of both critiquing and exposing your own conditions in these kinds of situations.

But it also becomes incredibly useful for imagining new identities and futures, you know, after traumatic events like wars.

Oh, certainly.

Not only was Bollywood on the rise, but it was also getting incredible international distribution.

So was something called Indian parallel cinema, which grew alongside Bollywood, but had Italian neorealist influences and dealt with Indian history in the moment.

Both of these strands were also surprisingly really popular in Africa at the time before local industries had matured.

Yes, Black Girl or in the French original La Noire de, which actually is a little bit more sinister because it means the Black Girl of, implying belonging, is a 1966 film by a man who's now kind of remembered as the father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembène from Senegal.

Definitely.

Actually, film in many former colonies of Europe was introduced pretty early.