Shichinin no samurai aka Seven Samurai (Japan , 1954)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.8 | Metacritic - 99
Release Year - 1954
Country - Japan
Genres - Adventure | Drama
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Synopsis: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.


A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Awards
  • Won Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival - 1954
  • Nominated for BAFTA award - Best Film and Foreign Actor
Lists
  • Ranked #1 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
  • Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1982, and to the directors' top ten films in the 1992 and 2002 polls
  • Roger Ebert Top 100
  • IMDB Top 250 #14
Special Mention - Described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made
  • Innovated the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven
  • Single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai went on to become Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry
  • Rated by more than 120k users on IMDb
Legacy - Film spawned several sequels and there was also a short-lived 1998 television series


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