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- At the time, the film was the most expensive film made in Japan. It took a year to shoot and faced many difficulties. It was the second-highest-grossing domestic film in Japan in 1954. Many reviews compared the film to westerns. Seven Samurai is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in cinema history.
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Seven Samurai was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry. It has remained highly influential, often seen as one of the most "remade, reworked, referenced" films in cinema.
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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.
Seven Samurai is set at the end of the 16th century and centres on an impoverished Japanese village that is at the mercy of a marauding gang of bandits. The bandits have ransacked the village before, stealing its crops, but, before striking again, they decide to wait until the next harvest is complete. Determined to stop the assault, the village hires—in exchange for food—a disparate group of hungry samurai to help stave off the attack. The villagers are wary of their protectors, because Japan’s farming and warrior castes were culturally forbidden to intermingle and because of the samurai reputation for violence and sexual assault. Their protectors, however, prove valiant and honest, ultimately saving the village. The film ends on an introspective note: while the villagers happily celebrate their victory and the defeat of their oppressors, the three surviving samurai wonder what they have won.
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•Studio: Toho Company
•Director: Kurosawa Akira
•Producer: Motoki Sōjirō
•Writers: Kurosawa Akira, Hashimoto Shinobu, and Oguni Hideo
•Music: Hayasaka Fumio
•Running time: 207 minutes
•Mifune Toshirō (Kikuchiyo)
•Shimura Takashi (Kambei)
•Inaba Yoshio (Gorobē)
•Kato Daisuke (Shichiroji)
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Apr 15, 2014 · When Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai premiered in Japan on 26 April 1954, it was the most expensive domestic production ever, costing 125 million Yen (approximately $350,000), almost five times the then 26 million Yen ($63,000) average for a typical Japanese studio picture.
Seven Samurai ‘s narrative is deceptively simple: A poor farming village in sixteenth century feudal Japan is plagued by the oncoming threat of bandits. Desperate, community members vote to fight rather than let the bandits raid another year’s toiled-over rice crop.
Oct 19, 2010 · At the end of the strife-torn sixteenth century, soon after the period of Seven Samurai, the Tokugawa clan gained power and reestablished shogunate rule over the whole of Japan—a rule that endured for the next two hundred and fifty years. Foreigners were expelled; Japan became a closed country, cut off from the outside world.
Kurosawa Akira’s Seven Samurai is a timeless masterpiece that has been widely recognized as the greatest foreign-language film ever made. The plot concerns a humble village hiring a band of samurai and protecting itself from pillage in war-ravaged sixteenth-century Japan.
