Action · Drama
Seven Samurai
Avg rating 9.2 / My rating TBC
1954 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · With Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba
- Japanese Golden Age
- Historical Epic
- Auteur Cinema
In sixteenth-century Japan, a farming village learns that bandits will return after the harvest. The farmers set out to hire masterless samurai who will fight for little more than food. It is an epic of more than three hours that mixes tension, humour and close attention to its characters.
Film info
- Runtime
- 3h 27m · 207 min
- IMDb
- 8.6 / 10 (397,770 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 98 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.5 / 10 (audience, 4,391 votes)
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