A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.... (Full plot summary below)
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A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.
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| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe legendary Mifune leads a superb cast, and Kurosawa's kinetic camera keeps the adventure sizzling with energy and wit from start to finish. |
| eFilmCritic.comBrian MckayThe touchstone for the entire Samurai genre, as well as the inspiration for several western films . . . it continues to endure because it is an epic, and epics never die |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSeven Samurai is an unforgettable masterpiece -- the work of one of the world's greatest filmmakers at the height of his powers. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestA genuinely entertaining movie with characters we love and characters we love to hate, sensuality and violence, tragic events and laugh out loud moments. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisImpressive and ambitious, but seriously - am I the only person alive who finds it overwrought and patience-testing? |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrKurosawa's film is a model of long-form construction, ably fitting its asides and anecdotes into a powerful suspense structure that endures for all of the film's 208 minutes. |
| Common Sense MediaDavid GurneyFamous epic with stylish violence and subtitles. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanRich in detail, vivid in characterization, leisurely in exposition, this 207-minute epic is bravura filmmaking. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseSynthesizes the traditions of the samurai narrative and the American western to create an intimate epic with deeply felt ground-level consequences. [Blu-ray] |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrMoves like hot mercury, and it draws a viewer so thoroughly into its world that real life can seem thick and dull when the lights come up. |
