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.

Seven Samurai: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki. Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, …

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

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Arguably Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece, The Seven Samurai is an epic adventure classic with an engrossing story, memorable characters, and stunning action sequences that make it one of the most...

Dec 19, 2025 · Seminal director Akira Kurosawa's action epic classic 'Seven Samurai' is now available to stream for free.

Jan 16, 2026 · 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.

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.

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 …

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.