Seven Samurai (1954)
With Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima and Yukiko Shimazaki, it tells the story of a village of farmers who hire seven samurai to help defend their village from bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Influential in world cinema, Seven Samurai is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made.
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