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Seven Samurai

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A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. But the poor village under attack by bandits needs to recruit more unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Katô, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari, ...»

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Country:

Japan

Release:

1954

IMDb:

8.6

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Duration:

207 min

KEYWORDS:

#Akira Kurosawa #Keiko Tsushima #Seven Samurai #Takashi Shimura #Toshirô Mifune

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ACTORS OF "Seven Samurai"

Toshirô Mifune

1 April 1920, Tsingtao, China [now Qingdao, Shandong, China]

Takashi Shimura

12 March 1905, Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan

Keiko Tsushima

7 February 1926, Nagasaki, Japan

Yukiko Shimazaki

25 February 1931, Tokyo, Japan

Kamatari Fujiwara

15 January 1905, Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Katô

18 February 1910, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Isao Kimura

22 June 1923, Hiroshima, Japan

Minoru Chiaki

30 July 1917, Hokkaido, Japan (some sources say 28 April 1917)

Seiji Miyaguchi

15 November 1913, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshio Kosugi

15 September 1903, Tochigi, Japan

Bokuzen Hidari

20 February 1894, Saitama, Japan

Yoshio Inaba

15 July 1920, Japan

Yoshio Tsuchiya

18 May 1927, Yamanashi, Japan

Kokuten Kôdô

29 January 1887, Takasago, Hyogo, Japan

Eijirô Tôno

17 September 1907, Gunma, Japan

Kichijirô Ueda

30 March 1904, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Jun Tatara

4 August 1917, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan

Atsushi Watanabe

9 April 1898, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Toranosuke Ogawa

25 February 1915, North Korea

Isao Yamagata

25 July 1915, London, England, UK

Sôjin Kamiyama

30 January 1884, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Gen Shimizu

1 January 1907, Tokyo, Japan

Keiji Sakakida

15 January 1900, Omagari, Daisen, Akita, Japan

Shinpei Takagi

3 November 1902, Suwa, Nagano, Japan

Shin Ôtomo

13 April 1919, Akita, Japan

Toshio Takahara

1 May 1923, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Sugi

Hiroshi Hayashi

31 January 1905, Kyoto, Japan

Sachio Sakai

13 February 1929, Tokyo, Japan

Sôkichi Maki

Ichirô Chiba

Noriko Sengoku

29 April 1922, Tokyo, Japan

Noriko Honma

29 November 1910, Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan

Masanobu Ôkubo

6 February 1922, Yamagata, Japan

Etsuo Saijô

Minoru Itô

13 March 1928, Chiba, Japan

Haruya Sakamoto

Gorô Sakurai

Hideo Shibuya

20 February 1928, Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Kamoda

Senkichi Ômura

27 April 1923, Tokyo, Japan

21 April 1924, Omuta, Fukuoka, Japan

28 September 1885, Fukuoka, Japan

1 January 1929, Yamagata, Japan

3 November 1906, Nagano, Japan

Ippei Kawagoe

Jirô Suzukawa

Junpei Natsuki

15 June 1918, Fukuoka, Japan

7 April 1906, Tokyo, Japan

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DIRECTORS OF "Seven Samurai"

Akira Kurosawa

23 March 1910, Tokyo, Japan

CREATORS OF "Seven Samurai"

Shinobu Hashimoto

18 April 1918

Akira Kurosawa

23 March 1910, Tokyo, Japan

HEROES OF "Seven Samurai"

Kikuchiyo

Played by: Toshirô Mifune

Kambei Shimada

Played by: Takashi Shimura

Shino

Played by: Keiko Tsushima

Shichiroji

Played by: Daisuke Katô

Katsushiro Okamoto

Played by: Isao Kimura

Heihachi Hayashida

Played by: Minoru Chiaki

Kyuzo

Played by: Seiji Miyaguchi

Farmer Mosuke

Played by: Yoshio Kosugi

Gorobei Katayama

Played by: Yoshio Inaba

Farmer Rikichi

Played by: Yoshio Tsuchiya

Gosaku

Played by: Keiji Sakakida

CRITICS OF "Seven Samurai"

Common Sense Media

Famous epic with stylish violence and subtitles.

January 01, 2011

TIME Magazine

Again and again, Kurosawa sends a dark thrill through his audience with a touch of sensuous physical reality.

April 20, 2009

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Film Geek Central

I can think of a several samurai films that I prefer to this, but it's still a solid film.

June 04, 2013

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ReelViews

Seven Samurai is an unforgettable masterpiece -- the work of one of the world's greatest filmmakers at the height of his powers.

May 29, 2003

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Total Film

Kurosawa deflates the myth of the noble samurai without actually debunking it, and stages some great action sequences.

March 26, 2013

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Christian Science Monitor

The legendary Mifune leads a superb cast, and Kurosawa's kinetic camera keeps the adventure sizzling with energy and wit from start to finish.

March 26, 2013

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ColeSmithey.com

Kurosawa's intention of making his first period film "entertaining enough to eat" is brought to that palpable condition through [Toshiro] Mifune's endlessly watchable peasant warrior.

May 26, 2009

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Groucho Reviews

Synthesizes the traditions of the samurai narrative and the American western to create an intimate epic with deeply felt ground-level consequences. [Blu-ray]

November 03, 2010

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Time Out

The epic action scenes involving cavalry and samurai are still without peer.

June 24, 2006

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Chicago Tribune

The greatest movie ever made about warriors and battle.

March 26, 2013

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Chicago Reader

Kurosawa's film is a model of long-form construction, ably fitting its asides and anecdotes into a powerful suspense structure that endures for all of the film's 208 minutes.

March 01, 2007

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Variety

Besides the well-manned battlescenes, the pic has a good feeling for characterization and time.

March 01, 2007

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GALLERY OF "Seven Samurai"