Shichinin no samurai (1954)




Toshirô Mifune - Shichinin no samurai




Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him. As the samurai teach the peasants how to defend themselves, the village is attacked by an army of bandits.


Books on Shichinin no samurai

Joan Mellen
Seven Samurai
London, 2002

Books with substantial mentioning of Shichinin no samurai

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Bert Cardullo
Indelible Images, New Perspectives on Classic Films
Lanham - New York - London, 1987

Articles on Shichinin no samurai

Ian Nathan, The Magnificence of the 7 Samurai, in: Empire, nr. 250 (April), 2010 pp. 130-136


Shichinin no samurai
Japan 1954

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Year: 1954
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
 
IMDb: 0047478