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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Yoshio Inaba (稲葉 義男, Inaba Yoshio, July 15, 1920 – April 20, 1998) was a Japanese actor [1] best known for his role as Gorobei in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. [2] In addition to his career in film, Inaba was also a prolific theater actor and a member of the prestigious Haiyuza Theatre Company. [2] [3] He died of a heart attack at ...
Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Just as swiftly as Kambei Shimada (Takashi Shimura), the noble samurai leader of the seven, sprints this way ...
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 ...
The first was the Kurosawa epic Seven Samurai, about a band of hired samurai who protect a helpless village from a rapacious gang of thieves. The same year, Kurosawa's friend and colleague Ishirō Honda directed the anti-nuclear monster-drama Godzilla , featuring award-winning effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.