Storyline
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. A giant battle occurs when 40 bandits attack the village.
Directors
Cast
Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Eijirō Tōno, Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe, Takeshi Katô, Sachio Sakai, Akira Tani, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Gen Shimizu, Shin Ôtomo, Shôichi Hirose, Senkichi Ômura, Noriko Honma, Shinpei Takagi, Akio Kusama, Ichirô Chiba, Haruya Sakamoto, Hideo Shibuya, Kamayuki Tsubono, Minoru Itô, Masaaki Tachibana, Kyoko Mori, Haruo Nakajima, Minoru Chiaki, Kokuten Kôdô, Toranosuke Ogawa, Kichijirô Ueda, Yoshio Kosugi, Haruo Suzuki, Shigemi Sunagawa, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Bokuzen Hidari, Jun Tatara, Isao Yamagata, Sôjin Kamiyama, Keiji Sakakida, Toshio Takahara, Hiroshi Sugi, Hiroshi Hayashi, Sôkichi Maki, Noriko Sengoku, Masanobu Ôkubo, Etsuo Saijo, Gorô Sakurai, Kiyoshi Kamoda, Takashi Narita, Kôji Uno, Taiji Naka, Chindanji Miyagawa, Ryûtarô Amami, Jun Mikami, Sanpei Mine, Masahide Matsushita, Kaneo Ikeda, Takuzô Kumagaya, Ippei Kawagoe, Jirô Suzukawa, Junpei Natsuki, Kyôichi Kamiyama, Gorô Amano, Akira Kitchôji, Kôji Iwamoto, Hiroshi Akitsu, Akira Yamada, Kazuo Imai, Eisuke Nakanishi, Toku Ihara, Hideo Ôtsuka, Shû Ôe, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Yasumasa Ônishi, Tsuneo Katagiri, Megeru Shimoda, Masayoshi Kawabe, Shigeo Katô, Yoshikazu Kawamata, Takeshi Seki, Haruko Toyama, Tsuruko Mano, Matsue Ono, Tsurue Ichimanji, Masako Ôshiro, Kyôko Ozawa, Michiko Kadono, Toshiko Nakano, Shizuko Azuma, Michiko Kawabe, Yûko Togawa, Yayoko Kitano, Misao Suyama, Toriko Takahara, Ken Utsui, Ren Yamamoto
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Reviews
100
Boston Globe
Moves like hot mercury, and it draws a viewer so thoroughly into its world that real life can seem thick and dull when the lights come up.
100
Much imitated, still unsurpassed. By critical consensus one of the best movies ever made, The Seven Samurai covers so much emotional, historical, and cinematic ground that that it demands to be viewed over and over again.
100
The legendary Mifune leads a superb cast, and Kurosawa's kinetic camera keeps the adventure sizzling with energy and wit from start to finish.
100
New York Daily News
It's impossible to imagine how the action genre would have developed without Akira Kurosawa's watershed 1954 movie Seven Samurai.
90
Village Voice
Rich in detail, vivid in characterization, leisurely in exposition, this 207-minute epic is bravura filmmaking -- a brilliant yet facile synthesis of Hollywood pictorialism, Soviet montage, and Japanese theatricality that could be a B western transposed to Mars.
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