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Synopsis
Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima and Yukiko Shimazaki, it tells the story of a village of farmers who hire seven samurai to help defend their village from bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Influential in world cinema, Seven Samurai is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Order and ChaosThemeThe plan is the film: a village fortified, a battle rehearsed to the last fence post, and then rain and mud in which the plan's own authors are killed.
- The Rehearsal RoomMotifKambei drills farmers into a defence, and Kurosawa gives the training as much screen time as the battle, because the training is the argument.
