Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1954 / 207 min.
Kurosawa’s exciting adventure film about desperate, 16th-century villagers recruiting seven samurai to protect them from bandits was incredibly influential and made a huge impact on later westerns and action films.
This monumental action-adventure film – featuring the legendary Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura – splices philosophy and entertainment, subtle human emotions and merciless action into a rich, descriptive historic thriller and moral-political fable in one. A village of rice farmers recruit a group of samurai to protect them from plundering bandits.
Seven Samurai will be screened with the original, built-in intermission and music (5 mins).
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Details
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Production year
1954
Country
JP
Original title
Shichinin no samurai
Length
207 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG or NLD
Format
DCP
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Introduction Peter Verstraten
Peter Verstraten (Leiden University) gave an introduction (in Dutch) to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. This monumental action-adventure film – starring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura – interweaves philosophy and entertainment, subtle human emotions and ruthless action into a rich, evocative historical thriller and moral-political fable in one. The film inspired countless filmmakers, such as Peter Jackson, John Sturges, Antoine Fuqua, Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone.
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