Tuesday, 7 February 2017

IMDb 8.7/10

Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (1954) is not only a great film in its ownright, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century

Cast

Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada

Yoshio Inaba as Gorōbei Katayama

Daisuke Katō as Shichirōji

Seiji Miyaguchi as Kyūzō

Minoru Chiaki as Heihachi Hayashida

Isao Kimura as Katsushirō Okamoto

Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo


It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven ronin (master less samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.

Movie floe 4.7/5