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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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- Akira Kurosawa
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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, yet not only did Seven...
- The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail. The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail is the first of Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies, and it's also his weakest.
- Sanjuro. Sanjuro, released in 1962, is the sequel to Kurosawa's own Yojimbo, released a year earlier. The two films follow a nameless ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune, as he becomes entangled in the criminal activities of a town.
- Yojimbo. Yojimbo might be Kurosawa's most iconic samurai film due to the lasting impact of its style and character archetypes. The Man with No Name from Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy is based entirely on Mifune's nameless ronin, and the film's suspenseful confrontations in a small town location would later be echoed in a number of American Westerns.
- The Hidden Fortress. Kurosawa's 1958 samurai movie, The Hidden Fortress, was a huge influence on George Lucas's vision for Star Wars. It follows two peasants — the inspirations for C-3PO and R2D2 — as they wander a war-torn landscape and eventually stumble upon a samurai played by Mifune.
Aug 19, 2001 · Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (1954) is not only a great film in its own right, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century.
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.
The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide.
