Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) (1954)

chanbara (チャンバラ?) AKA Samurai Cinema (20 movies items)

"The story is about a poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. This movie to many is the best Samurai movie, it happens to be one of my favs. The fighting in the movie is great, and the acting brilliant. "

3003MasterpiecesToChangeYourLifeBeforeYouAscend-P1 (1001 movies items)

"Directed by Akira Kurosawa "

“''What's the use of worrying about your beard when your head's about to be taken?'' A poor village under attack by bandits recruit seven unemployed”

Year By Year Of My Favorite Flix (94 movies items)

" Considered Akira Kurosawa's most accomplished work, Seven Samurai is a black & white classic whose story has inspired many a film afterwards, most notably (& one of my favorites) the Magnificent Seven. It's a story of the Old East, which coincidently enough, runs themes which will eventually become staples in movies dealing with the Old West. Here, the heros are truly heroes, but each is shown as a distinctive individual, with human traits & flaws that allow for the empty space to be felt when"

The All Time Greats (99 movies items)

"~ Excellent."

Seen in 2013 (118 movies items)

"03/24/13 - Certainly entertaining throughout but at the end of the day, that's all it really is."