Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. But the poor village under attack by bandits needs to recruit more unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
1 May 1923, Tokyo, Japan
15 November 1913, Tokyo, Japan
31 January 1905, Kyoto, Japan
12 March 1905, Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
1 January 1907, Tokyo, Japan
18 February 1910, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
30 March 1904, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
15 September 1903, Tochigi, Japan
29 April 1922, Tokyo, Japan
4 August 1917, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
25 February 1915, North Korea
March 26, 2013
Kurosawa deflates the myth of the noble samurai without actually debunking it, and stages some great action sequences.
April 20, 2009
Again and again, Kurosawa sends a dark thrill through his audience with a touch of sensuous physical reality.
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.
January 01, 2011
Famous epic with stylish violence and subtitles.
June 04, 2013
I can think of a several samurai films that I prefer to this, but it's still a solid film.
March 26, 2013
The greatest movie ever made about warriors and battle.
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.
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.
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.
June 24, 2006
The epic action scenes involving cavalry and samurai are still without peer.
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 01, 2007
Besides the well-manned battlescenes, the pic has a good feeling for characterization and time.
