The original uncut version of Kurosawa's masterpiece! With Seven Samurai, which boasts one of the greatest battle scenes ever filmed, Akira Kurosawa achieves what modern American and European epic makers vainly attempt: the excitement of the senses. In a 16th-century Japanese village, seven hired knights defend the town against forty hundred bandits. Their pay: a few handfuls of rice. A raging, sensuous work of overpowering immediacy. 35mm
1954, b&w, 3 hours 30 minutes, Japan