Seven Samurai is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in cinema history.
Many reviews compared the film to westerns.
It was the second-highest-grossing domestic film in Japan in 1954. It took a year to shoot and faced many difficulties. It follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who seek to hire rōnin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.Īt the time, the film was the most expensive film made in Japan. The story takes place in 1586 in the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history, during the reign of Emperor Ōgimachi and his Chancellor Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Seven Samurai ( Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai ) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan rentals: ¥268.2 million ( $2.3 million)
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