Miniature landscape bonsai series The Seven Samurai
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See the above picture.There is a small house,and it is just like real one. "what is it made of ?" Great ! Mr.Atomi has the great skill to use handy tools ! |
Mr. Atomi’s landscape bonsai representing the scene “Springtime Village” from The Seven Samurai
Everyone knows Mr. Akira Atomi as an expert in miniature rose bonsai, but only a limited number of people probably knows that he was once engaged in the making of a Kurosawa film.
Back in 1947, when the postwar reconstruction started, Mr. Atomi joined Toho Studios, burning with a missionary zeal to bring entertainment and laughter back to the public and in 1953 he was assigned to lead a unit B of the art department responsible for the set of The Seven Samurai directed by Akira Kurosawa.
The film is widely regarded in the world as Kurosawa’s masterpiece. Set in warring provinces in the late 16 century, the film depicts a story of poor village farmers who hire seven masterless samurai to save the village in an all-out effort, from marauding bandits.
Mr. Atomi and his team were responsible for the outdoor set of a water mill on location in Izu. When the scene was not shot the way Kurosawa wanted, Mr. Atomi’s team had to rebuild the set over and over again and sometimes repair the damage caused by typhoons to satisfy director Kurosawa’s repeated demands to shoot the same scene. After months of hard toil, the film was finally released in 1954.
With fond memories of that period, Mr. Atomi recreates one of the scenes from the film. Please take a closer look at the sensitive, subtle and lifelike world scaled-down from that famous scene.
* The above is the description based on the comment of "9th International Roses & Gardening Show 2007".
The size of the above figures is about 6cm or 7cm
