# Seven Samurai (1954)

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**Original title**: *七人の侍*
**Runtime**: 207 min
**Genres**: Action, Drama
**Directed by**: Akira Kurosawa
**Written by**: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
**Starring**: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō

> *Unmatched for suspense and spectacle!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You hire a wandering samurai with no master and a stomach that knows famine. The villagers offer food for protection against bandits returning every harvest. He recruits six more warriors and teaches the farmers to fight. Then forty bandits charge in at dawn.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, epic, playful, tender, uplifting

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.6/10 (397770 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 100% · Metacritic 98/100

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