Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

  • Director: Akira Kurosawa
  • Writer: Akira Kurosawa,Shinobu Hashimoto,Hideo Oguni
  • Countries of origin: Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Release date: November 19, 1956
  • Runtime: 3h 27min
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: The Magnificent Seven
  • "The Seven Samurai" is an action film directed by Wind Man with the participation of Toshirô Mifune , Takashi Shimura , and Naoko Mori . 
    The film mainly describes the story of the people in poor villages and seven hired samurai in order to defend their homeland in the Warring States Period in Japan to fight off robbers. 
    The film won the 1954 Venice International Film Festival Silver Lion Award . No. 1 in Japan's 100 films selected by Japan's "Movies".
    The film topped British Broadcasting Corporation's Top 100 Foreign Language Films in 2018 . 

    Details

    • Release date November 19, 1956
    • Filming locations Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka, Japan
    • Production companies Toho Company

    Box office

    Budget

    ¥125,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $318,649

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $15,942

    Gross worldwide

    $322,773

    Movie reviews

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    • By Vita 2022-04-23 07:01:15

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      The first half is so interesting, I really like Kurosawa's shots, it's very fascinating.
      The first half is mainly about the origins of the Seven Samurai, from the helplessness of the villagers, to the search for the Samurai... Very interesting, I laughed out loud several times. It reminds me of Liangshan Heroes for a while, the Eye of History for a while, and guerrilla warfare for a while.
      In the second half, the samurai fell one by one, and although they won, they were not happy at...

    • By Sedrick 2022-04-23 07:01:15

      Man's destiny?

      Although it looked a bit bloody and cruel, this movie made me have a question: Does it have to be a life-and-death relationship between humans? Even though we may be overwhelmed by fear and have the idea of ​​destroying the opponent, can we regain some sanity in the face of the individual besieged when we have the ability to be equal to the opponent? Can we no longer be confined to the life-and-death relationship with you from the narrow perspective of violence against violence, and sit down...

    • By Letha 2022-04-23 07:01:15

      Humanity is cruel

      Some people's thinking is stubbornly outdated and cannot be changed. The blindness, indifference, and onlookers of the group are like the rabble, sometimes covering up the seeds of light.

      The surface is loyal but the most stingy, cunning, cowardly, and bad-hearted.

      The more humble people are, the more they will bully the more down-to-earth people. The villain's heart is a gentleman's belly

      . The depiction of human nature is intricate, and

      the samurai who...

    • By Amara 2022-04-23 07:01:15

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      My understanding of Japanese samurai has always been ambiguous. I used to think that he was just like a Chinese knight, but later I thought he was different from a knight, because knights always give people a sense of wandering and loneliness. It is disdainful of the government, and the samurai seems to have an inexhaustible relationship with politics. Looking at it this way, the warriors are somewhat similar to the "Three Thousands of Mencius Lord" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the...

    • By Maeve 2022-04-23 07:01:15

      Justice and Injustice

      [207 Minutes (Remastered Version)] The black-and-white screen feels particularly original and retro, but such a technology can produce such an amazing movie, which makes people sigh at the director's profound skills.
      The film fully expresses the sadness, helplessness and inferiority of farmers in the background of that era. They have to pay taxes to the government, but the government can't protect them; robbers also come to rob food and even women from time to time; they want to protect...

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    • By Norberto 2023-09-30 20:03:26

      This is definitely one of the coolest movies I've ever seen! In terms of the script, it is almost a movie’s ability to portray the protagonist group’s image as complete and full as the maximum capacity, not only in line with practical considerations, but also full of philosophical thinking in the lines and plot trends. On the camera, there are frequent subjective shots and near, medium and long shots. Switching is not messy, the position of each protagonist is carefully revealed to the...

    • By Harley 2023-09-25 02:58:51

      20181201 Film Archive 207-minute 4K restoration.

    • By Precious 2023-08-08 23:40:37

      Akira Kurosawa is one of the greatest film directors to express rain: ... the angles of the framing often form a flat picture, accentuating those uninterrupted side movements. No matter how large or small, if people think of Japanese topology, it is easy to understand this important rhythm-space: ... people do not go from the unknown object to the basis for determining it, people start with all the basis, and then point out the unknown The boundaries of the object. //Gille Deleuze, Film 1:...

    • By Garrett 2023-08-05 18:26:01

      I like the part about recruiting samurai in the first hour. The seven samurai gathered together like this, laughing, beating, and scolding. It is warm and beautiful. Compared with that, the last two hours are too tragic and solemn. Maybe this is what Kurosawa Akira intended....

    • By Scarlett 2023-06-10 21:14:24

      The meaningless war in the small village, whether Shidou or loyalty, has no value in the end, the only creed is to use, the only value is survival, unscrupulous world, no need for...

    Movie plot

    During the Warring States Period in Japan, a mountain village full of desolate mountains and rivers was attacked by robbers every year when the wheat was harvested. This year, the villagers decided to hire seven samurai to defend their village and harvest. The seven samurai were Kanbei, Kuzo, Katsushiro, Goro, Shichiro, Heihachi, and Kikuchiyo, a farmer posing as a samurai. The samurai Kanbingbei is a man with strong pace and rich...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The film is the third collaboration between the veteran hero of the screenwriting world, Shinobu Hashimoto and Akira Kurosawa after the movie "Survival". 
    In 1960, Kurosawa Akira's "Seven Samurai" was remade by John Sturges and named "Seven Noble Men". James Cowburn plays the flying knife cowboy, and the characters are directly drawn from the samurai swordsman of Akira Kurosawa.
    Due to a budget error in film shooting funds, Kurosawa had...
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    Evaluation action

    The film can be said to be the first period drama of the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa to truly add the interest of western film. The content describes the story of the Japanese in the Warring States Period, the poor villagers defending their homes and joining forces with seven hired samurai to fight off robbers. Although director Kurosawa Akira intends to make this film into a thorough entertainment action film, in fact, the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Old Woman: I don't want to live any more. But I'm afraid the next world will be terrible, too...

      Heihachi Hayashida: No, no. It's paradise. No bandits or anything. It's very nice.

      Kikuchiyo: [loudly] How do you know? Ever been dead?

      Heihachi Hayashida: [to Kikuchiyo] You needn't yell at me.

    • Kikuchiyo: [to Rikichi, who is spending the night in the stable] It's me. I'm sleeping here from now on. Those guys cramp my style.

      [Rikichi starts to hurry out]

      Kikuchiyo: Stop cowering, you idiot! This is your place! You hand over your house and sleep in a barn and you still can't stand up for yourself! Go back to sleep!

      [He grabs the startled farmer and hurls him onto the straw. He lies down on the straw himself, beside Rikichi, with a straw mat over his body for a blanket. He sighs]

      Kikuchiyo: Brings back memories.

    • [Kikuchiyo helps Kambei carry the body of the wife away, while he holds the infant]

      Kambei Shimada: Let's go!

      [He looks back at Kikuchiyo, who is standing in the middle of the river, stunned]

      Kambei Shimada: Damn it, what it is it now?

      [Kikuchiyo suddenly sinks to his knees, cradling the child]

      Kikuchiyo: This baby... It's me. This is just what happened to me!

      [He sobs]