# Eleven Samurai (1967)

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**Original title**: *十一人の侍*
**Runtime**: 100 min
**Genres**: Action, Adventure, Drama
**Directed by**: Eiichi Kudō
**Written by**: Kei Tasaka, Takeo Kunihiro, Norifumi Suzuki
**Starring**: Isao Natsuyagi, Kōtarō Satomi, Kōji Nanbara, Junko Miyazono, Keiko Okawa, Kei Satō

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You lead a band of eleven outlawed samurai through a famine-stricken valley and then the Shogun’s son signs the disband order. A fallen lord’s ghost rides beside you at dusk.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, epic, outsider

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