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The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)

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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.

Cast

  • Toshirô Mifune
  • Takashi Shimura
  • Keiko Tsushima
  • Yukiko Shimazaki
  • Kamatari Fujiwara
  • Daisuke Katô
  • Isao Kimura
  • Minoru Chiaki
  • Seiji Miyaguchi
  • Yoshio Kosugi

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Metacritic

90

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.

Metacritic review by Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
The New York Times
100

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.

Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
90

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.

Metacritic review by J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice