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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 19, 1956 |
Starring:
Daisuke Katô, Isao Kimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiko Tsushima, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Kosugi, Yukiko Shimazaki
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Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
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Rich in detail, vivid in characterization, leisurely in exposition, this 207-minute epic is bravura filmmaking -- a brilliant yet facile synthesis of Hollywood pictorialism, Soviet montage, and Japanese theatricality that could be a B western transposed to Mars.
On that simple framework and familiar story line, director Kurosawa has plastered a wealth of rich detail, which brilliantly illuminates his characters and the kind of action in which they are involved. He has loaded his film with unusual and exciting physical incidents and made the whole thing graphic in a hard, realistic western style.
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Apr 19, 2006
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Dec 5, 2009
Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" is a symphony of cinematic splendor, vibrancy and vision. A talisman of epic action, character and story-telling perfectly harmonized. Pure genius captured and codified on celluloid.
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May 3, 2014
WIthout doubt, the greatest action film of all time which has since set the bar for all other subsequent action films. Kurosawa, in the space of five years has now made three of the greatest films of all time (Rashomon and Ikiru)
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Sep 18, 2011
"The Seven Samurai" is one of the best movies ever made. It's emotionally resonating, majestic, virtuous, and action-packed. It's 3 hours and 26 minutes of foreign entertainment that never, even for a second, feels like you're reading words in a book as you look at the subtitles.
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Aug 3, 2013
Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is the very apex of cinema. It tells a complete and full story, rich with striking action and compassionate humanity. It literally is the three-and-a-half hour epic so many filmmakers have tried and failed to produce.
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Mar 17, 2016
Don't think of this as just a poor 1950's film. Think of it like it was made in the modern times. That will possibly help you find Seven Samurai a great film from the early days.
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Jul 3, 2016
Probably the most boring movie I've ever seen. It starts out pretty slow and all the way to the ending is slow. I swear that if I had kids, they will probably switch the movie in 5 minutes.
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