The Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The story follows a group of seven masterless samurai who are hired to defend a small village from a group of bandits. The samurai must face the bandits in a series of battles in order to protect the
Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima and Yukiko Shimazaki, it tells the story of a village of farmers who hire seven samurai to help defend their village from bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Influential in world cinema, Seven Samurai is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made.