Seven Samurai

Criterion/Voyager (1954)

Action, Drama, Foreign, War

/ Black And White / 207 mins

5035673005019

In Collection
#1119

8.8

Plot

A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Cast

	Yoshio Inaba	Gorobei Katayama
	Toshirô Mifune	Kikuchiyo
	Takashi Shimura	Kambei Shimada
	Keiko Tsushima	Shino
	Daisuke Katô	Shichiroji
	Seiji Miyaguchi	Kyuzo
	Minoru Chiaki	Heihachi Hayashida
	Isao Kimura	Katsushiro Okamoto

Crew

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Producer

Sojiro Motoki

Writer

Akira Kurosawa

Cinematography

Asakazu Nakai

Musician

Fumio Hayasaka

Trailer

Edition Details

Release Date	22/11/1999
Packaging	Snap Case
Screen Ratio	Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles	Danish; English; Finnish; Norwegian; Swedish
Layers	Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes	1

Personal Details

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Features

Leaflet with film notes and director's biography

Images

Poster

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