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Seven Samurai
The village is constantly under attack by armed gangs well. One day after the attack, they seek the wisdom of a sheikh who tells them that they cannot buy weapons, but they can find men with weapons, or samurai, who will fight for them. They found the samurai with great experience with a healthy heart who agreed to fight for them without money. He chooses five real samurai and one suspect, but the seven return to the village to protect him from forty gangs.
30 July 1917, Hokkaido, Japan (some sources say 28 April 1917)
13 April 1919, Akita, Japan
27 April 1923, Tokyo, Japan
15 September 1903, Tochigi, Japan
13 February 1929, Tokyo, Japan
30 January 1884, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
15 January 1905, Tokyo, Japan
29 November 1910, Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
20 February 1928, Tokyo, Japan
25 July 1915, London, England, UK
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.
January 01, 2011
Famous epic with stylish violence and subtitles.
June 24, 2006
The epic action scenes involving cavalry and samurai are still without peer.
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.
June 04, 2013
I can think of a several samurai films that I prefer to this, but it's still a solid film.
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]
April 20, 2009
Again and again, Kurosawa sends a dark thrill through his audience with a touch of sensuous physical reality.
March 26, 2013
Kurosawa deflates the myth of the noble samurai without actually debunking it, and stages some great action sequences.
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
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 26, 2013
The greatest movie ever made about warriors and battle.
March 01, 2007
Besides the well-manned battlescenes, the pic has a good feeling for characterization and time.

