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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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Within Vinony's link graph, Seven Samurai is referenced by 399 other articles, and connects out to Academy Awards, humanism and Toshirō Mifune.
It is catalogued under topics including 1950s epic films, 1950s samurai films and 1954 drama films.
Its subject is documented across 62 Wikipedia language editions.
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8.4A 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.
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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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 207
- FilmAffinity ID
- 168398
- Image
- Seven Samurai poster2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Seven Samurai
- publication date
- 1954-00-00
- title
- 七人の侍
- capital cost
- 210000000
- box office
- 268230000
- review score
- 4.6/5
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Encyclopedic overview
Directed byAkira Kurosawa Written by Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
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