Seven Samurai
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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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8.5A 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, Drama
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
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- 1954
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Directed byAkira Kurosawa Written by Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
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1950s epic films1950s samurai films1954 drama films1954 films1954 Japanese films1954 Japanese-language filmsFilms directed by Akira KurosawaFilms produced by Sōjirō MotokiFilms scored by Fumio HayasakaFilms set in 16th-century Sengoku periodFilms set in the 1580sFilms with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa