Seven Samurai

1954 · 3h 27m · drama film · samurai cinema · action film

Rotten Tomatoes 100%Metacritic 98/100IMDb 8.6/10

Seven 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.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

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