Seven Samurai
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- Action
- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- farmer
- battle
- martial arts
- epic
- forbidden love
- excited
- sword
- period drama
- critical
- japan
- black and white
- village
- moral ambiguity
- samurai
- violence
- peasant
- 16th century
- fencing
- looting
- reflective
- rice
- bandit
- practice
- jidaigeki
- informative
- bushi
- plunder
- class relations
- violent
- downtrodden farmers
- tactical warfare
- collectivism
- seven
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 26, 1954
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO
- Cast
- Toshirō Mifune,Takashi Shimura,Yoshio Inaba,Seiji Miyaguchi,Minoru Chiaki,Daisuke Katō,Isao Kimura,Keiko Tsushima,Yukiko Shimazaki,Kamatari Fujiwaraand 91 more
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Sōjirō Motoki
- Cinematography
- Asakazu Nakai
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Budget
- $2,000,000
- Revenue
- $105,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0047478