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Seven Samurai
A group of bandits, who attack, rob and plunder a safe village in the desert resort to a group of samurai to protect them from gangs. The samurai (Cambi) agrees to lead the mission, defend the city, and join many other samurai, they are joined by a light-haired young man (Yokichipu), a Samurai fan, who trains the villagers in preparation for the final battle.
15 July 1920, Japan
7 April 1906, Tokyo, Japan
October 24, 1931 in Tokyo, Japan
17 September 1907, Gunma, Japan
13 March 1928, Chiba, Japan
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.
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
Besides the well-manned battlescenes, the pic has a good feeling for characterization and time.
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]
March 26, 2013
Kurosawa deflates the myth of the noble samurai without actually debunking it, and stages some great action sequences.
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.
April 20, 2009
Again and again, Kurosawa sends a dark thrill through his audience with a touch of sensuous physical reality.
January 01, 2011
Famous epic with stylish violence and subtitles.
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.
June 24, 2006
The epic action scenes involving cavalry and samurai are still without peer.
March 26, 2013
The greatest movie ever made about warriors and battle.
June 04, 2013
I can think of a several samurai films that I prefer to this, but it's still a solid film.

