When the swordsman fell in Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
in the gray rain,
in Cinemascope and the Tokugawa dynasty,
he fell straight as a pine, he fell
as Ajax fell in Homer

- Robert Hass, "Heroic Simile"

The Memorial

The Lost Patrol (1934)

dir. John Ford

Seven Samurai (1954)

dir. Akira Kurosawa