Seven Samurai

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.

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Akira Kurosawa directed Seven Samurai in 1954. See Akira Kurosawa's full filmography, where to start with Akira Kurosawa, or where to go after you've seen everything by Akira Kurosawa.

Seven Samurai was released in 1954 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 207 minutes.