Toshiro Mifune erupts with savage glee as Kikuchyo in Seven Samurai.
The Big Picture It would be a stretch to call Seven Samurai the first action movie. After all, one has to take into account the existence of silent classics like 1926's The General and 1927's Best Picture-winning Wings, as well as swashbuckling action/adventure movies from Hollywood's Golden Age like 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Release Date April 26, 1954 Director Akira Kurosawa Cast Toshiro Mifune , Takashi Shimura Runtime 207 minutes The Satisfying "Building a Team" Premise of 'Seven Samurai' For better or worse, a good many successful stories play out over three acts, and few use this well-worn structure quite as effectively as Seven Samurai.
Related Nothing Influenced '60s Westerns Like Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai Movies Cowboys are a bunch of nerds! Give me some samurai! Once more, things come back to runtime. Time is needed to properly establish an entire village - even a small one - and that's what is done with both patience and efficiency throughout the middle act of Seven Samurai.
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