Seven Samurai information

Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai
	Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	七人の侍
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Shichinin no Samurai
Directed by	Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay by	Akira Kurosawa; Shinobu Hashimoto; Hideo Oguni;
Produced by	Sōjirō Motoki
Starring	Toshiro Mifune; Takashi Shimura; Keiko Tsushima; Isao Kimura; Daisuke Katō; Seiji Miyaguchi; Yoshio Inaba; Minoru Chiaki; Kamatari Fujiwara; Kokuten Kōdō; Yoshio Tsuchiya; Eijirō Tōno; Jun Tatara; Atsushi Watanabe; Yoshio Kosugi; Bokuzen Hidari; Yukiko Shimazaki;
Cinematography	Asakazu Nakai
Edited by	Akira Kurosawa
Music by	Fumio Hayasaka
Production; company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	April 26, 1954;
Running time	207 minutes (with intermission)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	¥210 million ($580,000)
Box office	Japan rentals: ¥268.2 million ($2.3 million) ; USA: $833,533

Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Taking place in 1586^[a] in the Sengoku period of Japanese history, it follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who seek to hire samurai to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.

At the time, the film was the most expensive film made in Japan. It took a year to shoot and faced many difficulties. It was the second-highest-grossing domestic film in Japan in 1954. Many reviews compared the film to westerns.^[4]

Seven Samurai is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in cinema history. Since its release, it has consistently ranked highly in critics' lists of greatest films, such as the BFI's Sight & Sound and Rotten Tomatoes polls.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] It was also voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 international critics' poll.^[9] It is regarded as one of the most "remade, reworked, and referenced" films in cinema.^[10]

^ Ryfle, Steve; Godziszewski, Ed (2017). Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. Wesleyan University Press. p. 105. ISBN 9780819570871.
^ Sharp, Jasper (May 7, 2015). "Still crazy-good after 60 years: Seven Samurai". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
^ Cite error: The named reference Kinema was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Sharp, Jasper (May 20, 2020). "Seven Samurai: The rocky road to classic status of Akira Kurosawa's action masterpiece". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
^ "Top 100 Movies Of All Time". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on August 18, 2015. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
^ "Critics' top 100". bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 9, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
^ "Sight & Sound 1992 Critics poll". listal.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
^ "Sight & Sound 2002 Critics' Greatest Films poll". listal.com. Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
^ Cite error: The named reference bbc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Desser, David (November 1998). "Reviewed Work: The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie". The Journal of Asian Studies. 57 (4): 1173. doi:10.2307/2659350. JSTOR 2659350. S2CID 159855562.

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[1] Ryfle, Steve; Godziszewski, Ed (2017). Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. Wesleyan University Press. p. 105. ISBN 9780819570871.

[JasperSharp-2] Sharp, Jasper (May 7, 2015). "Still crazy-good after 60 years: Seven Samurai". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021. Retrieved February 16, 2015.

[Kinema-3] Cite error: The named reference Kinema was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[:0-5] Sharp, Jasper (May 20, 2020). "Seven Samurai: The rocky road to classic status of Akira Kurosawa's action masterpiece". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

[6] "Top 100 Movies Of All Time". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on August 18, 2015. Retrieved June 26, 2019.

[7] "Critics' top 100". bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 9, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2019.

[8] "Sight & Sound 1992 Critics poll". listal.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

[9] "Sight & Sound 2002 Critics' Greatest Films poll". listal.com. Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

[bbc-10] Cite error: The named reference bbc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Desser-11] Desser, David (November 1998). "Reviewed Work: The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie". The Journal of Asian Studies. 57 (4): 1173. doi:10.2307/2659350. JSTOR 2659350. S2CID 159855562.

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