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One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.

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Title	Seven Samurai (1954)
Runtime	3 hr. 26 min.
Director	Akira Kurosawa
Country	Japan
Studio	Criterion Collection
Genres	Drama \| Foreign Language
Description	One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa—featuring legendary actors Toshirô Mifune and Takashi Shimura—seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action, into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.

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2 months ago

Agreed! They keep taking away the movies that were great classics and available without hulu+, to the point where we're stuck with "Sniper" being one of the best available options...F U Hulu.

Seven Samurai is however a classic, and one of the best films ever made. If you enjoyed it check out "The Magnificent Seven" An Americanized western version of this film, staring Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, and Yul Brynner

8 months ago

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And by the way hulu, thank you much for giving us "Speed Racer: The movie" free to watch anytime while you charge us to watch "The Seven Samurai". (Are your sarcasm detectors working yet?)

And also thank you for making me determined to just order this on Amazon and never bother trying to watch another movie on this site again.

Goodbye.

8 months ago

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This movie was free just last week. Now I have to pay to watch it again?

9 months ago

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Five minutes in, I was moved to tears and this movie never let me go. This is real film making folks. I wouldn't have believed how epic this was, had someone just told me. I highly recommend this film to everyone. I was stunned!

9 months ago

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Takashi Shimura is the best. ever. I love him. Just had to say that. When he and Mifune are in the same flick, its a party on the screen. This is great classic cinema. The only thing about it that is dated or doesn't hold up well are the screechy women. Kurosawa always mixes naturalism and very stylized acting, but in the older movies like this, the women are often soooo stylized it's annoying.

9 months ago

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I put this in my queue when it popped up during the Summer releases because I knew it was a famous movie, but I had neither the time nor the inclination to sit down and watch a 3.5 hour black and white subtitled Japanese movie. The recent hurricane gave me oodles of time with nothing to do so I decided to give it a shot. I am so glad I did. Even though the movie was so long, I really can't think of even one wasted scene. Seven Samurai certainly deserves all the praise it gets, even decades after it's release.

9 months ago

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The first time I was exposed to the word "dotard". I've seen it several time since, but I'll always remember the "dotard".

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