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- 1956
- Not Rated
- 3 h 27 m
- 1956
- Not Rated
- 3 h 27 m
Summary Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Written By: Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
- 1956
- Not Rated
- 3 h 27 m
- 1956
- Not Rated
- 3 h 27 m
Seven Samurai
98
8.8
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Summary Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Written By: Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
98
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
98
100% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The glorious vigour and strength of this film is presented with such theatrical relish and flair: its energy flashes out of the screen like a sword.
It's impossible to imagine how the action genre would have developed without Akira Kurosawa's watershed 1954 movie Seven Samurai.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 470 User Ratings
8.8
91% Positive
426 Ratings
426 Ratings
4% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
6% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 470 User Ratings
8.8
91% Positive
426 Ratings
426 Ratings
4% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
6% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
In my opinion this film is amazing, it can be a film about war and death but can have commedy and is never off tone. Despite being a very old film a think that does affect it in a negative way, although in some parts you can wonder why the film don't have blood, or even another thing but in my opinion that is part of the experience. I recommed it.
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A classic movie that has stood the test of time. It’s a movie that explores the themes of honor, duty, and sacrifice. The film is a masterclass in storytelling and character development. The performances are outstanding, and the cinematography is breathtaking. The film is a must-see for anyone who loves cinema.
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The legendary Mifune leads a superb cast, and Kurosawa's kinetic camera keeps the adventure sizzling with energy and wit from start to finish.
Much imitated, still unsurpassed. By critical consensus one of the best movies ever made, The Seven Samurai covers so much emotional, historical, and cinematic ground that that it demands to be viewed over and over again.
Moves like hot mercury, and it draws a viewer so thoroughly into its world that real life can seem thick and dull when the lights come up.
On that simple framework and familiar story line, director Kurosawa has plastered a wealth of rich detail, which brilliantly illuminates his characters and the kind of action in which they are involved. He has loaded his film with unusual and exciting physical incidents and made the whole thing graphic in a hard, realistic western style.
Rich in detail, vivid in characterization, leisurely in exposition, this 207-minute epic is bravura filmmaking -- a brilliant yet facile synthesis of Hollywood pictorialism, Soviet montage, and Japanese theatricality that could be a B western transposed to Mars.
As much as I do love Ran, The Hidden Fortress and Throne of Blood, it was Seven Samurai that I love most of Akira Kurasawa's films. As with all Kurasawa's films, it is incredibly well made with authentic scenery that would give meaning to the term epic and the camera work is truly spectacular. This is especially true in the final battle, with inspired use of moving and multiple camera, precise editing, telephoto lenses and variegated film speeds. As always with Kurasawa, the direction is consistently brilliant. Add to that a stirring score from Fumio Hayasaka and a thoughtful script and you have more reasons why Seven Samurai is so good. The story unfolds slowly, but never felt dull to me and is never hampered by the three-and-a-half-hour running time. Plus Seven Samurai is interesting for being one of the first few to utilise the plot element of recruiting/gathering of heroes into a team to achieve a goal, seen especially with when the audience is first introduced Kambei. The action is spectacular and looks even better with the use of multiple cameras from various angles, and any humanity Seven Samurai has, and it does have a lot, is shown in a poignant way. The cast are excellent, with Takashi Shimura and especially Toshiro Mifune the standouts. Overall, of a resume of one of the greatest directors who ever lived, responsible for many wonderful movies(and I'd say that Seven Samurai and Ran are among the best movies ever made) Seven Samurai stands tall. One of the easiest 10/10s I've ever given. Bethany Cox
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although its revolutionary for its time, you may find your self not excited enough by the battles and the way characters are being played.
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Yawn. Tasted like a B Movie. I tried watching it in a few languages that I understand and still it was quite boring. As each scene cuts into the next scene - I would say the development of the characters is fair at best. The story is below average. The Acting is just barely above average.
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Its pretty hilarious that people unanimously pretend to like this movie. It may have been amazing almost 60 years ago but today its kind of like watching a play; its not much fun and you realize how bad entertainment must have been back then for people to have enjoyed it. This movie made sense in 1954 japan like Islam made sense in 6th century arabia; understandable people were into it at the time, but today its just a work of fiction composed by a borderline **** person. This movie makes Bio-Dome look like a magnum opus of cinema, in fact Pauley Shore would have really improved the Seven Samurai, add in a Baldwin and it might be watchable by a non-pretentious non-film student viewer.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 3 Nominations
Jussi Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
