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Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
The following is a list of works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution. This includes a complete list of films with which he was involved (including the films on which he worked as assistant director before becoming a full director), as well as his little-known contributions to theater, television and literature.
Samurai film: Sansho the Bailiff: Kenji Mizoguchi: Kinuyo Tanaka: Drama: Seven Samurai: Akira Kurosawa: Toshirō Mifune: Samurai film: Sound of the Mountain: Mikio Naruse: Setsuko Hara, So Yamamura: Drama: Twenty-four Eyes: Keisuke Kinoshita: Hideko Takamine: Drama: Won Best Film at the 5th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the 9th Mainichi Film Awards ...
This summer, timed to the 1954 film’s 70th anniversary, a new restoration of “Seven Samurai” is playing in theaters beginning Wednesday in New York and expanding around the country July 12.
An English dub of the film was produced by RKO Radio Pictures and distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 27, 1959, where it grossed $975,000 and reportedly received mostly positive reviews. Western film critics praised Tsuburaya's special effects, but some criticized the plot as confusing and juvenile.
English-language film Japanese-language film Common source material (if any) Alita: Battle Angel (2019) Battle Angel (1993) The manga 銃夢 (Gunnm) by Yukito Kishiro: Apartment 1303 3D (2012) Apartment 1303 (2007) The novel Apartment 1303 (Kei Oishi) Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) Seven Samurai (1954) Dark Water (2005) Dark Water (2002)
A number of Akira Kurosawa's films have been remade.. Note: This list includes full remakes only; it does not include films whose narratives have been loosely inspired by the basic plot of one or more of the director's films – as A Bug's Life (1998) references both Seven Samurai (1954) and its Hollywood remake The Magnificent Seven (1960) – nor movies that adopt, adapt, or parody ...
1954 Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin Berlin Film Festival: West Germany Film Ikiru: 1954 Silver Lion of St. Mark (Second Prize) Venice Film Festival Italy Film Seven Samurai (1954) 1959 Diploma of Merit Jussi Award: Finland Directing Seven Samurai: 1959 Blue Ribbon Award The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists Japan Film The Hidden ...