Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa · 1954 CE · Film · Japanese · Contemporary

A village of farmers, robbed of its harvest every year by bandits, sends men into town to hire samurai who will fight for rice. Six masterless swordsmen and one impostor come back with them and turn the village into a fortification before the raiders return. The team-assembly plot's great original.

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• ↓ The Magnificent Seven
  John Sturges · 1960 CE · Film — adapts this
• ↓ The Wild Bunch
  Sam Peckinpah · 1969 CE · Film — influenced by this

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• For Whom the Bell Tolls
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  Peter Jackson · 2003 CE · Film

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