Seven Samurai
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Seiji Miyaguchi
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Producer: Sōjirō Motoki
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.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White; Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White.
- During the occupation of Japan, authorities had deliberately suppressed the production of samurai films as they were seen to embody the anti-democratic, feudal values of Japan's wartime government.
- Kurosawa himself wanted to re-examine and make a new type of jidaigeki, or period drama, film.
- After the completion of Ikiru (1952), director Akira Kurosawa and his collaborator Shinobu Hashimoto planned to write a script following the daily routine of a single samurai, who at the end of the film would have to commit seppuku for a mistake made during the day.
Filming Locations
- Japan
Previous Showings
5 Runs • 4 Festivals
4,936 tickets sold
All runs on record (5):
- September 18 - 20, 1998 · 1,046 ticketsAkira Kurosawa Festival
- February 20 - 26, 2010 · 1,297 ticketsAkira Kurosawa Film Festival
- August 1 - 4, 2015 · 1,318 ticketsSummer 2015 Forty Classics from the Golden Age Including Kurosawa in August
- February 7 - 9, 2020 · 895 ticketsAkira Kurosawa Film Festival
- September 17 - 18, 2022 · 380 tickets