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📅 1954 ⏱ 3h 27min NR Released FHD / 4K

Seven Samurai

七人の侍

"Unmatched for suspense and spectacle!"

ActionDrama

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.

🎬 DirectorAkira Kurosawa

📅 Release1954-04-26

🌍 CountryJapan

🗣 LanguageJapanese

🏢 StudioTOHO

🗳 Votes4,120

🔥 Popularity8

💰 Budget$2,000,000

💵 Revenue$105,000,000

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🎭 Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Kikuchiyo

Takashi Shimura

Kambei Shimada

Yoshio Inaba

Gorobei Katayama

Seiji Miyaguchi

Kyuzo

Minoru Chiaki

Heihachi Hayashida

Daisuke Katō

Shichiroji

Isao Kimura

Katsushiro Okamoto

Keiko Tsushima

Shino

Yukiko Shimazaki

Rikichi's Wife

Kamatari Fujiwara

Manzô - Father of Shino

Yoshio Kosugi

Mosuke

Bokuzen Hidari

Yohei

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Rikichi

Kokuten Kōdō

Gisaku, the Old Man

Eijirō Tōno

Kidnapper

🎥 Crew

DirectorAkira Kurosawa

ScreenplayShinobu Hashimoto

ScreenplayHideo Oguni

ScreenplayAkira Kurosawa

ProducerSōjirō Motoki

AccountantYuji Hamada

Original Music ComposerFumio Hayasaka

Director of PhotographyAsakazu Nakai

EditorAkira Kurosawa

Assistant DirectorSakae Hirosawa

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🏷 Keywords

martial artsjapansamuraiswordpeasantvillagelootingricefencingmoral ambiguityforbidden loveblack and white

💬 Reviews

Andres Gomez⭐ 10/10

Fantastic movie with a great touch of reality.…

Kenneth Blais⭐ 10/10

At the top of my favorite films ever. Every time I watch it is see something new. Bandits steal peasants rice. Peasants hire ronin samurai to defend them. Great plot, pace and acting. Akira Kurasawa's best...perhaps.…

Filipe Manuel Neto⭐ 6/10

**Maybe a little overrated, but there's no doubt that it's good.** Well, I have to start this text with a note that I believe is relevant to understand what I'm going to write: this was the first Japanese film that I remember seeing. I might even be forgetting something I've seen before, but I don't think so. Therefore, I'm not a good connoisseur of Japanese cinema, so I don't want my opinion t…