Movie
1954
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 peasants who hire seven samurai to help defend their village from bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Influential in world…
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The quality of a work of art can be measured by other works of art it has inspired through time. The world of the seventh art has plenty of such examples, and the best known are those which have inspired numerous remakes through the decades. Among those remade films, the best are those that contain images, stories, and characters deeply ingrained in the collective unconsciousness of their viewers, regardless of thei…More
