Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Keiko Tsushima
Japan 1954 | 206 mins
Avaliable on: DCP, DVD
Also available on Blu-ray
When 16th-century farmers whose village is repeatedly attacked by merciless bandits ask an elderly, masterless samurai (Takahashi Shimura) for help, offering nothing but food in return, he hesitantly agrees, and assembles a band of warriors to defend and train the villagers...
Boasting terrific performances (with Shimura and Toshiro Mifune, as a peasant masquerading as a samurai, particularly memorable), superb camerawork, and expertly mounted battle sequences, Seven Samurai is undoubtedly one of the greatest action movies ever made.
DCP presentation includes a 5 minute 10 second intermission after 106 minutes.