Seven Samurai (1954)

Name: Seven Samurai
Released: 1954
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki

• Movies, Action, Drama

• 207 min

8.5

Unmatched for suspense and spectacle!

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Casting: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō, Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kokuten Kōdō, Eijirō Tōno, Jun Tatara, Atsushi Watanabe, Toranosuke Ogawa, Isao Yamagata, Kichijirō Ueda, Sôjin Kamiyama, Gen Shimizu, Keiji Sakakida, Shinpei Takagi, Shin Ōtomo, Toshio Takahara, Kan Sugi, Hiroshi Hayashi, Sachio Sakai, Sôkichi Maki, Ichirō Chiba, Noriko Sengoku, Noriko Honma, Masanobu Ôkubo, Etsuo Saijo, Minoru Itō, Haruya Sakamoto, Gorô Sakurai, Hideo Shibuya, Kiyoshi Kamoda, Senkichi Ōmura, Takashi Narita, Shōichi Hirose, Kôji Uno, Masaaki Tachibana, Kamayuki Tsubono, Taiji Naka, Chindanji Miyagawa, Shigemi Sunagawa, Akira Tani, Akio Kusama, Ryûtarô Amami, Jun Mikami, Haruo Nakajima, Sanpei Mine, Masahide Matsushita, Kaneo Ikeda, Takuzô Kumagaya, Ippei Kawagoe, Jirô Suzukawa, Junpei Natsuki, Kyôichi Kamiyama, Haruo Suzuki, Gorô Amano, Akira Kitchôji, Kōji Iwamoto, Hiroshi Akitsu, Akira Yamada, Kazuo Imai, Eisuke Nakanishi, Toku Ihara, Hideo Ôtsuka, Shû Ôe, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Yasumasa Ônishi, Tsuneo Katagiri, Megeru Shimoda, Masayoshi Kawabe, Shigeo Katô, Yoshikazu Kawamata, Takeshi Seki, Haruko Toyama, Tsuruko Mano, Matsue Ono, Tsurue Ichimanji, Masako Ōshiro, Kyōko Ozawa, Michiko Kadono, Toshiko Nakano, Shizuko Azuma, Michiko Kawabe, Yûko Togawa, Yayoko Kitano, Kyoko Mori, Misao Suyama, Toriko Takahara, Takeshi Katō, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ken Utsui, Ren Yamamoto, Takuzō Kumagai
Countries: Japan
Premiere: 1954-04-26
Status: Released

Tags: epic, martial arts, japan, samurai, sword, peasant, village, looting, rice, fencing, moral ambiguity, black and white, battle, bandit, practice, criterion, jidaigeki, 16th century, plunder, bushi

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.