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Seven Samurai (1954)

NR ★ 8.5/10 207 min Action, Drama Japan Japanese
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay by: Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
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Unmatched for suspense and spectacle!

Description

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.

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Top Cast

Toshirō Mifune
Toshirō Mifune Kikuchiyo
Takashi Shimura
Takashi Shimura Kambei Shimada
Yoshio Inaba
Yoshio Inaba Gorobei Katayama
Seiji Miyaguchi
Seiji Miyaguchi Kyuzo
Minoru Chiaki
Minoru Chiaki Heihachi Hayashida
Daisuke Katō
Daisuke Katō Shichiroji
Isao Kimura
Isao Kimura Katsushiro Okamoto
Keiko Tsushima
Keiko Tsushima Shino

Seven Samurai Appears on 44 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #729
Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures #211
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #02
Essential Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #75
IMDb Top 250
IMDb #23
Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux
Metacritic #043
Russian Culture Ministry’s 100 Recommended Films
Russian Culture Ministry #83
Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022
Sight & Sound #20

Critic Curated

50 Greatest Films Of All Time By Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair #37
BBC Culture: 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films
BBC #01
Collider's 50 Essential Action Movies
Collider #039
Collider’s 100 Essential Movies Any Serious Film Fan Should See
Collider #77
Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Movies as of 2013
Entertainment Weekly #17
Paste Magazines 100 Best Films Of The 1950s
Paste Magazine #06
Roger Eberts Great Movies
Roger Ebert #293
Rolling Stone - 50 Best Action Movies
Rolling Stone #008
Rotten Tomatoes 300 Best Movies Of All Time
Rotten Tomatos #04
Slashfilms 95 Best Action Movies Ever List
SlashFilm #78
The 100 Best Movies Of All Time By Esquire
Esquire #77
The Telegraphs 500 Must See Films
The Telegraph #369
Yahoo Movies 100 Movies To See Before You
Yahoo Movies #78

Filmmaker Curation

Denis Villeneuve's Favorite Movies
IndieWire #10
Edgar Wright's 1000 Favorite Movies
Letterboxd #169
Hayao Miyazaki's Favorite Movies
Far Out Magazine #20
James Gray's 50 Favorite Films
LaCinetek #43
John Woo's 50 Favorite Films
LaCinetek #10
Robert Eggers Favorite Movies
Various #07
Ryan Coogler's Favorite Movies
Various #36
Steven Spielberg's Favorite Movies
Far Out Magazine #19

Fun Lists

The Most Perfect Films On Letterboxd
Letterboxd #238
Top Of The Lists Most Quoted Films Ranked
LaCinetek #55

Genre Curation

A Great Action Film For Every Year 1924 To
British Film Institute #031
The 50 Best Samurai Films Of All Time By
Paste Magazine #032
Top 100 Samurai Films As Rated By The Letterboxd Community
Letterboxd #001

Letterboxd Lists

Letterboxd 120 Highest Rated 1950-1959 Films
Letterboxd #02
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Letterboxd #04
Showdown Last Action Hero
Letterboxd Showdown #13
Showdown Major League
Letterboxd Showdown #07
Showdown The Grey
Letterboxd Showdown #09
Showdown The Long Ships
Letterboxd Showdown #12
Showdown The Neverending Story
Letterboxd Showdown #04
Showdown The Warriors
Letterboxd Showdown #05
The Top-Rated Movie of Every Year by Letterboxd Users
Letterboxd #40

Temporal Era Sets

100 Maverick Movies in the Last 100 Years by Rolling Stone Magazine
FilmSite.org #57

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