Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai: Seven swords for one village
Original title: 七人の侍
A closer look at the story
Tired of losing their harvest to bandit raids, a group of farmers decide to find warriors who will defend their village. All they can offer is food, yet the seasoned samurai Kambei agrees to help and sets about recruiting six more fighters. Among them is Kikuchiyo, loud, reckless and harder to place than the rest. Together the seven turn the village into a defensive position and try to teach its people how to stand up for themselves. Directed by Akira Kurosawa, who wrote it with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni, the 207-minute 1954 film stars Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura in an epic about courage, class and solidarity.
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Cast
- Toshirō MifuneKikuchiyo
- Takashi ShimuraKambei Shimada
- Yoshio InabaGorobei Katayama
- Seiji MiyaguchiKyuzo
- Minoru ChiakiHeihachi Hayashida
- Daisuke KatōShichiroji
- Isao KimuraKatsushiro Okamoto
- Keiko TsushimaShino
- Yukiko ShimazakiRikichi's Wife
- Kamatari FujiwaraManzô - Father of Shino
- Yoshio KosugiMosuke
- Bokuzen HidariYohei
- Yoshio TsuchiyaRikichi
- Kokuten KōdōGisaku, the Old Man
- Eijirō TōnoKidnapper
- Jun TataraCoolie A
- Atsushi WatanabeBun Seller
- Toranosuke OgawaGrandfather of Kidnapped Girl
Behind the camera
- Akira KurosawaDirector, Screenplay
- Hideo OguniScreenplay
- Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
- Fumio HayasakaMusic
- Asakazu NakaiCinematography
- Sōjirō MotokiProducer
Character and job names are shown as recorded in the source.
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