Seven Samurai
1954 · TMDB 8.5 · 七人の侍
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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.
Why it matters
Akira Kurosawa's epic of village defence, released by the Criterion Collection on DVD in 1998 with a restored high-definition transfer and a commentary by film scholars. The disc's meticulous presentation of a foreign-language classic set a standard for how world cinema could be...
- Runtime
- 207 min
- Released
- 1954-04-26
- Studio
- TOHO
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- TMDB score
- 8.5
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