Seven Samurai
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.
22 June 1923, Hiroshima, Japan
30 March 1904, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
30 March 1922, Tokyo, Japan
15 November 1913, Tokyo, Japan
28 September 1885, Fukuoka, Japan
June 04, 2013
I can think of a several samurai films that I prefer to this, but it's still a solid film.
March 26, 2013
Kurosawa deflates the myth of the noble samurai without actually debunking it, and stages some great action sequences.
March 01, 2007
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.
November 03, 2010
Synthesizes the traditions of the samurai narrative and the American western to create an intimate epic with deeply felt ground-level consequences. [Blu-ray]
June 24, 2006
The epic action scenes involving cavalry and samurai are still without peer.
April 20, 2009
Again and again, Kurosawa sends a dark thrill through his audience with a touch of sensuous physical reality.
May 29, 2003
Seven Samurai is an unforgettable masterpiece -- the work of one of the world's greatest filmmakers at the height of his powers.
March 01, 2007
Besides the well-manned battlescenes, the pic has a good feeling for characterization and time.
March 26, 2013
The legendary Mifune leads a superb cast, and Kurosawa's kinetic camera keeps the adventure sizzling with energy and wit from start to finish.
May 26, 2009
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.
March 26, 2013
The greatest movie ever made about warriors and battle.
January 01, 2011
Famous epic with stylish violence and subtitles.
