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Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

Shichinin no samurai

Akira Kurosawa


  • Country: Japan
  • Year: 1954
  • Language: Japanese
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  • Runtime: 208 min.

"One of the great art works of the twentieth century" (Stanley Kauffmann), Akira Kurosawa's tale of seven masterless warriors hired to defend a village from pillaging bandits in sixteenth-century Japan is both an adventure epic and a grandly Shakespearean character drama.

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screening times

    • Sunday October 3
    • 2:45:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Saturday October 23
    • 12:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

"One of the great art works of the twentieth century" (Stanley Kauffmann), Akira Kurosawa's tale of seven masterless warriors hired to defend a village from pillaging bandits in sixteenth-century Japan is both an adventure epic and a grandly Shakespearean character drama. Drawing from Eisensteinian montage, Kurosawa's brilliantly kinetic editing makes his stunning battle scenes furious yet crystalline blazes of swift action and sudden, shocking violence. With the surging spectacle anchored by Kurosawa's regular stock company of actors—including Takashi Shimura as the group's wise leader and superstar Toshiro Mifune in a wild, elemental performance as a country bumpkin turned would-be warrior—Seven Samurai is a vital cinematic experience.

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