Seven Samurai

七人の侍

1954 · 3h 27m · 8.5

Action, Drama

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō, Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara

martial arts, japan, samurai, sword, peasant, village, looting, rice, fencing, moral ambiguity, forbidden love, black and white, battle, period drama, bandit, practice, farmer, jidaigeki, 16th century, class relations