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Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Seven Samurai: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki. Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
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- Action, Drama
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1956-11-19
Jun 13, 2024 · Seven Samurai, Japanese action film, released in 1954, that was cowritten and directed by Kurosawa Akira and is acclaimed as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Oct 30, 2018 · Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) is a three-and-a half-hour-long black-and-white epic set in war-torn, 16th-Century Japan. As elevator pitches go, it’s hardly ideal,...
- IT WAS AKIRA KUROSAWA’S FIRST SAMURAI FILM. He’s known now as the genre’s greatest master, but Kurosawa was more than a decade into his career as a director before he made Seven Samurai.
- IT BEGAN AS THE STORY OF A SINGLE SAMURAI. When Kurosawa first set out to make a samurai film, he sat down with screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto and outlined the idea of a “day in the life” story about a single samurai.
- THE BUDGET WAS UNPRECEDENTED IN JAPAN. At the time Seven Samurai entered production, most major Japanese films cost around $70,000. Because Kurosawa demanded the authenticity of things like a fully constructed outdoor village location, and because of frequent production challenges, the shoot dragged on and eventually took a year to complete.
- KUROSAWA PROTESTED PRODUCTION DELAYS BY GOING FISHING. As the production process of Seven Samurai grew longer and longer, producers grew worried that Kurosawa was spending too much on the film.
Feb 12, 2017 · One of the most iconic films of this era is Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai”, considered among the most influential movies of all time, and the basis for a plethora of productions, with John Sturges’ “The Magnificent Seven” being a direct adaptation.
Seven Samurai was Akira Kurosawa’s 15th film as a director and is perhaps the work that he is most strongly identified with. Set in the late 16th century, the story centres around a farming village that hires a group of masterless samurai to defend them against an impending bandit raid.
