Seiven Samurai
| Seiven Samurai | |
|---|---|
| Directit bi | Akira Kurosawa |
| Produced bi | Sojiro Motoki |
| Written bi |
Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto Hideo Oguni |
| Starnin |
Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune |
| Muisic bi | Fumio Hayasaka |
| Cinematografie | Asakazu Nakai |
| Eeditit bi | Akira Kurosawa |
Production company | |
| Distributit bi |
Toho (Japan) Columbia Pictures (US) |
Release date |
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Runnin time | 207 minutes |
| Kintra | Japan |
| Leid | Japanese |
| Budget | $500,000 |
Seiven Samurai[1] (七人の侍 Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese period adventure drama film co-written, editit, an directit bi Akira Kurosawa. The film taks place in 1587 during the Warring States Period o Japan. It follaes the story o a veelage o fairmers that hire seiven masterless samurai (ronin) tae combat bandits who will return efter the hairst tae steal thair crops.
Seiven Samurai haes been describit as ane o the greatest an maist influential films ever made,[2] an is ane o a select few Japanese films tae acome widely kent in the Wast for an extendit period o time. It is the subject o baith popular an creetical acclaim; it wis votit ontae the tap three o the Sight & Sound critics' leet o greatest films o aw time in 1982, an ontae the directors' tap ten films leets in the 1992 an 2002 polls.[3]
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- ↑ Acause the Japanese leid haes no definite airticle, the quaisten arises as tae whether the proper Scots translation o the title is Seiven Samurai or The Seiven Samurai. While the umwhile is the leeteral translation, either mey be considered idiomatically correct.
- ↑ Fujiwara, Chris (2002-08-29). "Canon fodder - What it means to call Seven Samurai a great film". The Boston Phoenix.
- ↑ "The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002". Retrieved 2010-12-28.
