Story Line
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
“Unmatched for suspense and spectacle!”
Top Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Kikuchiyo
Takashi Shimura
Kambei Shimada
Yoshio Inaba
Gorobei Katayama
Seiji Miyaguchi
Kyuzo
Minoru Chiaki
Heihachi Hayashida
Daisuke Katō
Shichiroji
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Rating
8.4/ 10
Release Date
1954-04-26
Runtime
3h 27m
Genres
ActionDrama
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User Reviews (5)
Andres Gomez
10/10
•10/23/2013Fantastic movie with a great touch of reality.
Kenneth Blais
10/10
•11/18/2022At the top of my favorite films ever. Every time I watch it is see something new. Bandits steal peasants rice. Peasants hire ronin samurai to defend them. Great plot, pace and acting. Akira Kurasawa's best...perhaps.
Filipe Manuel Neto
6/10
•11/25/2022**Maybe a little overrated, but there's no doubt that it's good.**
Well, I have to start this text with a note that I believe is relevant to understand what I'm going to write: this was the first Japanese film that I remember seeing. I might even ...
drystyx
10/10
•4/2/2023I must begin by saying I am a bit "attention deficit" and that I never thought I would like subtitles, but this film flows through its long length with such adventure that I don't see how anyone can keep from being entranced with every second.
And i...