Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him. Reviewers say 'Seven Samurai' is highly rated for its groundbreaking …

Aug 19, 2001 · Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” (1954) is not only a great film in its own right, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century.

Seven Samurai, Japanese action film, released in 1954, that was cowritten and directed by Kurosawa Akira and is acclaimed as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.

In Akira Kurosawa's stunning epic, a veteran samurai gathers six others to teach a village of farmers how to defend against marauding bandits.

Mar 29, 2026 · Seven Samurai can be considered the best action movie of time because of its stakes, characters, and the way it feels epic and intimate all at once.

Currently you are able to watch "Seven Samurai" streaming on HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel or for free with ads on Shout! Factory TV, YouTube Free.

Mar 7, 2008 · The story of Seven Samurai is deceptively simple: a poor farming village in sixteenth-century feudal Japan is threatened by bandits. In desperation, community members vote to fight …

One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous war­riors to protect them …

Seven Samurai has been influential among western filmmakers, with its story and approach to action remade and reiterated numerous times, most notably in the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven.