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Seven Samurai
MEANRANK
88/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #24
- IMDb #30
- Google retired #176
- Rotten Tomatoes #2
- Metacritic #4
- Letterboxd #6
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #24
- Metacritic Audience #17
- Criticker #6
- Douban #25
- Kinopoisk #111
- AlloCiné #3526
- Trakt #59
Every rating
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100. Critics average 99, everyone else 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A poor village under attack by bandits hires seven masterless samurai (ronin) to protect them. The samurai, who work for nothing but food, teach the villagers to defend themselves and prepare the town for the coming assault. The film details the formation of this uneasy alliance and the epic battle that follows.
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
- Studio
- TOHO
- Released
- 26 April 1954
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 207 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $105.0M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 10 →1 major award won · 4 wins from 10 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Venice Film Festival 1954 | Silver Lion | Akira Kurosawa | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1957 | Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) | Takashi Matsuyama | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1957 | Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) | Kōhei Ezaki | Nominee |
| Jussi Awards 1959 | Acting | Takashi Shimura | Winner |
| Jussi Awards 1959 | Directing | Akira Kurosawa | Winner |
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1957 | Best Foreign Language Film | Seven Samurai | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1956 | BAFTA Award for Best Film | Seven Samurai | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1956 | BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor | Toshirō Mifune | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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10 awards — Seven Samurai
×| Silver Lion | Akira Kurosawa | Winner |
| Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) | Takashi Matsuyama | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design (Black-and-White) | Kōhei Ezaki | Nominee |
| Acting | Takashi Shimura | Winner |
| Directing | Akira Kurosawa | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Seiji Miyaguchi | Winner |
| BAFTA Award for Best Film | Seven Samurai | Nominee |
| BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor | Toshirō Mifune | Nominee |
| BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor | Takashi Shimura | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Seven Samurai | Nominee |