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Seven Samurai

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Seven Samurai

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1954 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa

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"Seven Samurai" is a 1954 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa about a group of samurai hired to defend a village from bandits. The film is considered a landmark work of cinema that influenced filmmaking worldwide and established many conventions of the action-adventure genre.

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Film · TMDB

8.4

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Released: 1954-04-26207 minDir: Akira KurosawaAction, DramaBudget: $2.0MBox office: $105M
▶ Watch trailerStream on: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Philo, HBO Max

Cast

  • Toshirō Mifune as Kikuchiyo
  • Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada
  • Yoshio Inaba as Gorobei Katayama
  • Seiji Miyaguchi as Kyuzo
  • Minoru Chiaki as Heihachi Hayashida
  • Daisuke Katō as Shichiroji

Themes

  • martial arts
  • japan
  • samurai
  • sword
  • peasant
  • village
  • looting
  • rice
  • fencing
  • moral ambiguity

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Ratings

IMDb

8.6/10

402,247 votes

Year
1954
Runtime
207 min
Genres
Action, Drama

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~40 min read

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Directed byAkira Kurosawa Written by Akira Kurosawa

Shinobu Hashimoto

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seven Samurai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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