Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1954 / 207 min.
Kurosawa’s thrilling epic about desperate villagers in sixteenth-century Japan recruiting seven samurai to protect them from bandits. This hugely influential action and adventure film had a massive impact on later Westerns and action movies such as John Woo’s (now reissued) Hard Boiled.
This monumental action and adventure film – featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura – weaves together philosophy and entertainment, subtle human emotions and unremitting action to create a rich, visual historical thriller that is both morality tale and political fable. A rice-farming village hires a group of samurai to defend them from plundering bandits.
Seven Samurai screens 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
NLD or ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Eye Classics
Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. With the Eye Classics series, Eye brings film history even closer. Every week, we screen at least three classics from the collection under one recognisable name: Eye Classics.
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